Hi everybody,

I have a specific problem I don't know how to solve it. Let me explain. I need drawings of multiple parts which are very similar to each other, just small changes. I have two views I want to show in the drawing. The top and bottom view of the part, but the two surfaces are not parallel to each other and each part I want to make drawings from having different angles between the bottom and top surface (see figure 1). I have made my drawing for one of the parts and as I don't want to make the whole drawing again for the next parts I am copy pasting the drawing file and change model for the drawing views. Here comes my problem. The view from the top surface, which is now angled (in our example pic 1) 4.47° instead of 1.47°, remains at the same angled view as part one. You can see that in pic 2. The view stayed basically on the 1.47° angle of the first part top surface. Basically I want my view be turned to 4.47°, so the holes and cutouts you are looking at are perpendicular to the view. Go get this view for the first part anyway I made a "current view". Is there some option in Solidworks to change this one specific drawing view to the new parts "current view" for example, or something else? The rotate command is just rotating around "Z" and not around "Y", which would be needed in this case (CS on 2nd pic).

I hope my problem is understandable. If not please let me know and I will try to explain it differently.

Cheers,

Sebastian