Creating Views Using Folding Lines

You can add geometry in views using folding lines as an assistant. This is true for any kind of view, as long as the planes they correspond to are not parallel. For example, you cannot have folding lines between a front view and a rear view.

Before you begin:
  • Create a drawing representation.
  • Go to Me > Preferences > App Preferences > 3D Modeling > Mechanical Systems > Drafting > Geometry section, under the Grid, clear the Display check box.
  • Double-click the view in which you are going to create geometry using folding lines.
  1. Right-click the view to be used as reference and select View Object > Show Folding Lines.
    The folding lines appear.
    Notes:
    • You can use a view as a reference that is not active and therefore displayed in blue, as in our example below. In all cases, the folding lines are created in the active view.
    • In the case of more complex geometry, you can select one or more element(s) in the reference view and display the corresponding folding lines. As a result, the views are not overloaded with folding lines. This is also true in the case of 2D components.
    Tip: At any time, you can right-click the view and click the Hide Folding Lines to remove these folding lines.
  2. From the Sketch section of the action bar, click Profile , and create geometry in the top view using the folding lines.

  3. Right-click the left view in which you are now going to create geometry and select Activate View.

    The folding lines disappear.

  4. Right-click each non-active view one after the other and select Show Folding Lines for each view.

    The folding lines now appear as shown here:
  5. From the Sketch section of the action bar, click Profile , and create geometry in the left view using the folding lines.


  6. Drag a view to move it.

    You can note that even when views are not aligned, folding lines remain associative.

    Important:
    • The above described functionality is also true in the case of views with a different scale.
    • In a Drawings context, folding lines are not fully supported in the case of aligned section views.