Drawing view/ Assembly orientation

[Jrashaw]

I've just learned enough to begin producing drawings. Doing O.K. until my last drawing of an assembly. The views are oriented with the assembly upside down. How does one correct that? I'd really appreciate the advice! Thanks!

P.S This is a Solidworks question

[shift1313]

well assuming the rest of your parts are constrained correctly you can add a mate to your base part(which is probably fixed and need to change to float) to one of your planes. does this make sense?

[Jrashaw]

Hey thanks for the info. It wouldn't let me do anything with the origin of the assembly as far as mates go. I also tried mating other parts to different planes, no go. Everything is constrained to itself properly. I'm wondering if I should try to change the original part of the assembly in it's own part file. Thanks again!

[shift1313]

right click on whatever the first part of your assembly was and make sure its set to float. If your components are already set to float you will see "fix" there. Fix basically locks the component where it is. I believe the first component of an assembly is automatically fixed in place(maybe others as well depending on their creation and if you referenced another part of the assembly)

[Jrashaw]

Well that was a valuable lesson! The guys in the shop would never have got that assembly right with it upside down!That was exactly the answer I needed! Thank you so much Matt!

[shift1313]

glad it worked out. i knocked my head against the wall a few times with that one, especially if its a large assembly and a small compononent is fixed. The way to avoid this is starting your drawing in the plane that gives you the correct orientation, or when you bring your first part into the assembly mate it to your planes before anything else(after setting it to float).

 

[Jrashaw]

Thanks Again Matt!