Mechanical Desktop 6 ReferencePoint Suite
Use this ReferencePoint for an overview of Mechanical Desktop 6, as well as for tips on creating components, drawing views, and other techniques.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Mechanical Desktop 6 ReferencePoint Suite
Point 4: Generating Drawing Views in Mechanical Desktop 6
Rajesh Charles
The drawing view of Mechanical Desktop (MDT) 6 enables you to view the surfaces of 3-D objects. Views or viewports help you to define 3-D objects on a 2-D plane.
You can design a 3-D object in an isometric plane, which enables you to view the surfaces of a graphical object along an angular position. The viewport of MDT enables you to view the designed 3-D objects. You can save the designed viewports by specifying a name to the view.
This ReferencePoint describes how to generate views of designed components in MDT 6. It also explains how to manipulate these components in the viewport of MDT.
Introducing Drawing Views
Drawing views in MDT enable you to define a graphical object along a Horizontal Plane (HP). The HP, when projected along the vertical axis denotes a Vertical Plane (VP). The plane perpendicular to the VP is the Horizontal Plane.
The projection of a graphical object along the VP is called the front view. The projection of an object along the HP is known as the top view. Projected planes of a graphical object form quadrants, which help view objects along the axis of the planes. Four types of quadrants are:
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First: Helps view object placed above HP and in front of VP
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Second: Helps view objects placed above HP and behind VP
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Third: Helps view objects placed below HP and behind VP
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Fourth: Helps view objects placed below HP and in front of VP
Figure 2-4-1 shows the...
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