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When you create a drawing from a part, curve, surface, or subassembly, you can create it without any views, by default, or with 4 standard views: top, front, right, and isometric. Typically, the projection of the views depends on the standard chosen: first angle projection for ISO standard and third angle projection for ANSI standard, you can also use a custom template and select the projection, or change the projection after the drawing is created.

For example, a standard ANSI drawing may look like this:

example of a standard ANSI drawing

All views of a part, curve, or surface in a drawing are from the same version of the part. When creating a view (drawing, projected, auxiliary, section) the part version used is the same as for all existing views.

Views are placed on sheets and can have relationships with other views.

This table illustrates the types of views and which can be created from which:

Projected View
Can be created from: Cannot be created from:

Base views

Projected views

Section views

Aligned section views

Auxiliary views

Projected views retain settings from the view from which it is created.

Detail views

Auxiliary View
Can be created from: Cannot be created from:

Crop views

Linear edge in base views

Linear edge in projected orthographic views

Linear edge in auxiliary views

Linear edge in isometric views

Linear edge in section views

Linear edge in aligned section views

Sketch line in "in line" auxiliary views

Centerline in "in line" auxiliary views

Detail views

Break views

Section View
Can be created from: Cannot be created from:

Auxiliary views

Crop views

Detail views

Positions in base views

Positions in isometric views

Positions in projected orthographic views

Section views and aligned section views

Views with broken-out sections

Cut line tangent to cylindrical face

Aligned Section View
Can be created from: Cannot be created from:

Auxiliary views

Crop views

Detail views

Positions in base views

Positions in isometric views

Positions in projected orthographic views

Section views and aligned section views

Views with broken-out sections

Cut line tangent to cylindrical face

Broken-out Section View
Can be created from: Cannot be created from:

Projected views

Auxiliary views

Broken views

Crop views

Views with other broken-out sections

Section views

Detail views

Aligned section views

Detail View
Can be created from: Cannot be created from:

Crop views

Positions in base views

Positions in projected orthographic views

Positions in isometric views

Position in an auxiliary view

Position in a section view

Position in an aligned section view

Detail views

Break View
Can be created from: Cannot be created from:

Base views

Project views

Auxiliary views

Section views

Aligned section views

Isometric views

Detail views

Crop View
Can be created from: Cannot be created from:

Projected views

Auxiliary views

Section views and aligned section views

Broken-out section views

Detail views

Break views