How To Add Centerlines In Solidworks Drawings

Later you place a drawing view or create a sketch, yous can add centerlines and center marks automatically or manually.

Automated centerlines

You tin add automated centerlines and centre marks to circles, arcs, ellipses, and patterns, including models with holes and extruded cuts (except mid-airplane extrusions). iFeatures and iParts can also accept automated centerlines and eye marks.

When you set up a cartoon or drawing template, use options in Document Settings to define the defaults for calculation automated centerlines. The settings include types of features to receive centerlines and centre marks and if the geometry is normal or parallel projection. Yous can set thresholds to exclude circular features smaller or larger than the specified radius and smaller than a minimum angle.

The format of a centerline or centre mark is specified in the Centre Marking Manner.

Transmission centerlines

You tin can manually apply four types of centerlines and center marks to individual features or parts in a drawing view.

Center Mark to annotate the eye of holes, circular edges, and cylindrical geometry
Centerline to annotate the centre of holes, circular edges, and cylindrical geometry
Centerline Bisector to create a centerline that bisects two lines
Centered Design to create a centerline on designs that take a consistent feature pattern
Note: If the pattern is circular, the center mark is placed automatically later on you select all members.

Setting style for centerlines and center marks

Employ the default way associated with the active standard or modify the marker, gap, extension, and other attributes in the style before you place centerlines and center marks in a drawing. The agile centre mark way controls the advent for both automated and manual center marks and centerlines. Changes to the style are in effect simply for the current document unless y'all salve changes to the style library.

You can change the line type of eye marks and centerlines in the Layers section of Way and Standard Editor. The appearance of center marks and centerlines in the cartoon is then changed to respect the selected line blazon.

Tips for working with automated centerlines and eye marks

Dependent views inherit the centerline settings from the base view. You can alter the settings for a dependent view later on placing it.
If you reapply automatic centerlines later deleting individual centerlines or center marks, the deleted centerlines or middle marks are reapplied also.
If you reapply automatic centerlines subsequently hiding individual centerlines or center marks, hidden centerlines or heart marks are not reapplied.
When features share a common heart, automated centerlines places merely i centerline or center mark.
If a centerline for a pattern overlaps another centerline for the same pattern, you can choose which centerline to keep, or delete them both and manually create one that incorporates both.
Automated centerlines are not practical to features for which the visibility is turned off in the model or view.
If you lot create a pattern in a sketch that is consumed by a feature (for example, the sketch is extruded), just center marks are created.
When y'all change or add together features to the model, reapply automated centerlines or manually place them on the new feature.
When applying centerlines and eye marks to a pattern, each chemical element is marked, including the centerlines and middle marks of nested patterns.

Center of Gravity in drawings

You lot can calculate the heart of gravity of a model for every view. In the browser, select the top level of the model, correct-click and select Center of Gravity. The command calculates the center of gravity of the model and produces a center marker on the drawing view at the relative position of the center of gravity.

The center of gravity position on the drawing view is calculated for the model referenced in the drawing view. The eye of gravity calculation takes into account the following items:

Positional representation referenced in a view. Design View representations and Level of detail representations do not touch center of gravity. The heart of gravity only refers to the Primary level of detail representation of the assembly. The suppression or substitution of the model does non affect the location of the centre of gravity.
Weldment land (training, weldment, machining view). Component-isolated preparation views cannot have the centre of gravity displayed.
iPart or iAssembly fellow member view.
Canvass metallic apartment pattern versus folded model.

When y'all modify the model, the Center of Gravity position on the cartoon view updates automatically.

Only one center of gravity representation is displayed for one view except for overlay views. They tin brandish one center of gravity per overlaid positional representation as well as the base representation.

The center of gravity is not supported for draft views and views of presentation files.

For cut operations, such as particular views and ingather views, the center of gravity adding is performed on the original component, not the cropped or detail model.

The center mark is formatted by the electric current center mark style.

You cannot use the drag method to move the centre of gravity center mark.