Continuing on with the theme of the last couple of weeks about drawings and detailing I want to show you another really nice enhancement that was made to the drawings area.  In the previous posts about these topics it has been about a 50/50 share between the drawings and detailing portion for each enhancement.  However, the next 3 enhancements are going to be strictly drawings enhancements and not so much about the detailing end.

How many of you have become extremely frustrated with the inability to create drawings of multibody parts very easily in the past.  That is going to change in SolidWorks 2010.  You will be able to create the 3 standard views of multibody parts and for flat patterns of multibody sheet metal parts you can use one body per view.  So how do you do this you ask, let me show you.

As you can see below I have a drawing for a part that has 3 separate bodies in it.  In the Drawing View PropertyManager you will notice a Reference Configuration heading and below it there is a Select Bodies button.

When you click that button it will automatically take you to the part file that contains these 3 bodies.  Now all you need to do is select which bodies you would like shown on your drawing and click the green check mark.

You will then be taken back to your drawing and voila, you are now showing a multibody part in your drawing.