2D Layout For 3D Design Views

  In 2D Layout for 3D Design, a sheet contains a set of the following views:
  • Design views: views in which you design and whose content can be visualized and output in 3D context.
  • Isometric views: views visualized only in the 2D Layout for 3D Design workbench (not in a 3D window).
 

Design views
 

Primary Views

Primary views are design views which have no parent view and set the distribution of their children views, grand-children views, and so on.
 
  The primary view type can be any projection view type (Front, Left, Right, Top, Bottom or Rear) and it is determined by the standard file embedded in the part document. There is no associative property between the primary view type and the standard. Therefore, the type of existing primary views will not be changed when updating the embedded standard with a standard which has another primary view type.

The name of a primary view corresponds to its view type. For example, a primary view of the left type is named "Left view". The specification tree does not distinguish primary views from other views. (To know which view is the primary one, you may use knowledge capabilities).

Layout sheets may have several primary views of different types.

A view box is associated to each new primary view. Thus, design views created from primary views are created according to their associated view boxes and not from the standard's definition, which keeps the position of linked views in 3D space coherent.

Section Cut / Section View

In the 2D Layout for 3D Design workbench, when activating the Cutting Plane icon, representations of section cuts and section views are identical (for the background of a section cut is still visible).

However, it is useful to differentiate these two view types from their 3D creation, because once projected in the Generative Drafting workbench, section cuts and section views are represented correctly.

To distinguish a section cut from a section view in a layout, you can customize the visualization. Activate the back-clipping plane, then edit a low depth. The background of the section cut will be less visible.

 
 

Isometric views
  Isometric views are visualized only in the 2D Layout for 3D Design workbench (not in a 3D window).

Isometric views differ from projection views to a certain extent. In 3D space, isometric views would be located at the corners of the view box. However, they are not visualized outside the 2D Layout for 3D Design workbench.
  The example here shows the positioning of an isometric view in 3D space.
  The purpose of isometric views is to check by transparency the validity of the 3D design, that is to compare the result of a part creation (from one or several design views) with the expected original design.