Dimensions in Orthographic viewports

Good Morning!

I am a retired Mfg. Engineer and I haven't used Autocad in 5 years. I used to do drawings of machine parts for our tool room I used ACad 2000 and was the department "go to" in AutoCad use because I could take a 3D solid, go into paperspace, create an initial viewport then make orthogonal views of that object in additional viewports. Each vport had its own dimensions layer that was frozen and invisible in the other vports. All my parts were drawn full scale so I dimensioned in model space inside the viewport. I remember being able to pick a side of the veiwport, i.e. L, R, T, or B. and generate a view from that. ' Problem is I have forgotten how I did that! grrr:x

I have "lurked" and searched in this web site for the last few days and I have picked up some helpful hints, like, I'm pretty sure I started with the mview command. I just can't find how to create these viewports and dim layers. As I recall, the dim layer included a 2d view of the part projected onto a plane in the model space. I'd like to think all I need is a "kick" in the right direction and I can take it from there.

I am designing a mailbox post and would like to be able to take "A size" drawings of the parts out to my shop. I will be using a regular inkjet printer so I only want to do one size of paper, 8-1/2 x 11 so one template would suffice.

I am using AutoCad 2000. Can anybody help?

Are you referring to any of these commands: SOLPROF, SOLVIEW and/or SOLDRAW?

Using SOLVIEW with SOLDRAW AutoCAD will automatically generate layers for visible objects, hidden lines, hatching (when a section is constructed) and dimensions. You tell AutoCAD what you want to use as the layer's name and it will append the necessary text to distinguish each layer. Example: Layer name = Top. AutoCAD will create the TOP-VIS, TOP-HID and TOP-DIM layers.

I should have mentioned that you need to be working with 3D solids that you want to generate 2D drawings for.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Soldraw and Solview did it for me! I don't recall using Solprof but I'll try that next.

Thanks again, so much!

You're welcomed, you're welcomed, you're welcomed!

Glad those commands jogged your memory.

Look up SOLPROF in AutoCAD Help. If you have any questions come back here and we will do our best to assist you.

BTW...Welcome to the CADTutor forum JR!