TechDraw DetailView
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| Menu location |
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| TechDraw → Insert Detail View |
| Workbenches |
| TechDraw |
| Default shortcut |
| None |
| Introduced in version |
| - |
| See also |
| Insert View, Insert Projection Group |
Description
The Detail tool creates a view of small area of an existing view.
Detail view with circular viewbox of an existing view
Usage
- Select a part view in the 3D window or tree.
- If you have multiple drawing pages in your document, you will also need to select the desired page in the tree.
- Press the
Insert Detail View button to create the section view. - select the created view in the tree and change its properties DataAnchor Point, DataRadius and/or DataScale to adjust the position, size and magnification of the base view area that should be displayed in the detail view.
The Detail view can be displayed within a round or square viewbox. This is controlled by the preferences setting Detail View Outline Shape.
Properties
Detail View
- DataBaseView: The view on which this Detail view is based.
- DataAnchor Point: The center of the Detail view within the DataBaseView.
- DataRadius: The size of the area in the DataBaseView that is displayed in the Detail view.
- DataScale: Magnification level.
- DataReference: An identifier to indicate the area of the DataBaseView that is displayed.
Base View
A Detail view inherits all applicable properties of the view specified as DataBaseView. In the properties of this view you can change the appearance of the detail outline:
- ViewHighlight Line Color: Line color for the outline shape.
- ViewHighlight Line Style: Line style for the outline shape.
The default settings for these parameters are set via the settings Detail Highlight and Detail Highlight Style in the TechDraw preferences.
Scripting
See also: TechDraw API and FreeCAD Scripting Basics.
The Detail tool can be used in macros and from the Python console by using the following functions:
Detail = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject('TechDraw::DrawViewDetail','Detail')
...TBA
Tricks
- The space around the view outline and the view object border is by default a white area. This means it covers everything behind it. Sometimes there is not enough space on the page and you can save space by reducing this unnecessary white area.
This is done by putting the Detail view into a clip group:
Detail view in a clip group
Notes
TechDraw 
- Pages: Insert Default Page, Insert Page using Template, Redraw Page
- Views: Insert View, Insert Active View, Insert Projection Group, Insert Section View, Insert Detail View, Insert Draft Workbench Object, Insert Arch Workbench Object, Insert Spreadsheet View
- Clips: Insert Clip Group, Add View to Clip Group, Remove View from Clip Group
- Dimensions: New Length, New Horizontal, New Vertical, New Radius, New Diameter, New Angle, New Angle3Pt, New Links, New Balloon
- Decorations: Hatch Face using Image File, Apply Geometric Hatch to Face, Insert SVG Symbol, Insert Bitmap Image, Turn View Frames On/Off
- Annotations: Insert Annotation, Add Leaderline to View, Insert Rich Text Annotation, Add Cosmetic Vertex, Add Midpoint Vertices, Add Quadrant Vertices, Add Centerline to Face(s), Add Centerline between 2 Lines, Add Centerline between 2 Points, Remove Cosmetic Object, Change Appearance of Line(s), Show/Hide Invisible Edges, Add Welding Information to Leader
- Import/Export: Export Page as SVG, Export Page as DXF
- Additional: Preferences; Hatching, LineGroup, Templates; TechDraw API, TechDrawGui API
User documentation 
- Installation: Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac, Docker, AppImage; Getting started
- Basics: About FreeCAD, Workbenches, Preferences, Document structure, Interface Customization, Properties, Mouse Model; Tutorials, Video tutorials
- Workbenches: Std Base; Arch, Draft, FEM, Image, Inspection, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Path, Plot, Points, Raytracing, Reverse Engineering, Robot, Ship, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Start, Surface workbench, TechDraw, Test Framework, Web
- Scripting: Introduction to Python, FreeCAD scripting tutorial, FreeCAD Scripting Basics, How to install macros, Gui Command, Units Modules: Builtin modules, Workbench creation, Installing more workbenches Meshes: Mesh Scripting, Mesh Module Parts: The Part Module, Topological data scripting, PythonOCC, Mesh to Part Coin scenegraph: The Coin/Inventor scenegraph, Pivy Qt interface: PySide, Using the FreeCAD GUI, Dialog creation Parametric objects: Scripted objects Other: Code snippets, Line drawing function, Embedding FreeCAD, FreeCAD vector math library, Power users hub, Python, Macros, FreeCAD Scripting Basics, Topological data scripting
