Fig. 5. The ‘design’ and ‘drawing’ windows cascaded

1. Without closing the drawing window from the File menu choose Open to load the design.

   (A file called Assembly.cvp [7.5kb] is available to support this Module.)

2. All of the views in your drawing will be generated from this design. The view of the design in the design window is normally the view that will be transferred to the drawing.

3. To enable switching back and forth between the design window to the drawing window from the Window menu. choose Cascade (Alternatively you can activate any window by selecting it from the list given at the bottom of the Window menu.) The active window will have a tick to the left of it.

4. In the Design window go to the View menu and choose Front Elevation.

5. Switch to the Drawing window

6. From the Drawing menu choose Add Modelling View.
   (Note that by default the view has a red box around it, however choice is given if more than one design is open)

7. With the highlighted Select View tool place the mouse arrow over the red line hold down the left mouse button and drag the view towards the top left-hand corner of the drawing.
   (If the box around your view is not highlighted click once over the dashed line around the view before holding down the left mouse button and dragging.)