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detail drawing
Hi,
I am wondering if it's possible to make a 'Detail drawing' in 2D: to pick a part of a 2D-view, and show it in a greater detail (larger scale) also. And all this such that this detail-drawing is linked to the non-detailed drawing (i.e. that it is updated also, whenever the 2D drawing is updated).

The non-detailed 2D drawing contains of course all details, and one can see them on the computer, but not when printed.

Sorry if it exists, and I did not find it.

Thanks
detail drawing
Let me answer my own question...
The key is to start in 3D, and export only a clipped rectangular area (and not to copy-scale an area of the 2D drawing)
1) View --> Standard views --> Select the given view, that you want to export to 2D
2) Click 'Create 2D drawing from 3D view
3) check 'Create 2D drawing from current view', check 'Clip exported objects to selected rectangle area', and also 'Add this view export to list of exports'. It will then complain that this view has already been exported, and exported objects may overlap, but that's ok, you will anyway place them somewhere else (In principle one could also take a predefined view, like Front, in this case VariCAD not only complains, but also does not make any clipping)

Once this is done, this exported/clipped view will be refreshed whenever the model is changed. You can scale it up to make details more visible when printed.
The only problem with this approach is that distances (and therefore dimensions) are also scaled up in this detail view.

Any idea, how to do it nicely? So that VariCAD knows that this exported view is a, say, 3:1 scale view, so dimensions would automatically corrected accordingly?

Thanks
detail drawing
You can correct the size of the dimension text very simply:
Use the "Edit Dimension" icon (EDM command), and select the dimension to edit. As soon as you select it, the size will be immediately corrected.
detail drawing
I did not mean the *size* of the dimension, but the value of the dimension.
If I export a tiny detail of my object to 2D, and first scale it up by a factor of, say, 5, so that I can show small details on the printout, then if I now create a dimension, showing for example the chamfer (which is, in reality, 1mm x 1mm) on an edge, then this dimension (the dimension text) will show 5mm, since it takes the actual distance in the 2D space.

That is however right, that if I first create all the dimensions that I want to show, and only then scale up this detail drawing by a factor of 5, then the size of the dimensions change by the same factor, but I can resize them as you suggested.

However, this is very annoying:
1) I need to resize all the dimensions manually (as you suggested)
2) I need to create all the dimensions *before* scaling the detail view. Once I scale up this detail drawing, and I want to modify
something (showing other dimensions, etc), then I need to keep in mind, that this is a scaled up view, and manually type in the real value. This is extremely error-prone!

Exported 2D views seem to keep an information about the original 3D objects and view, to which they correspond. Could they not also keep an information about the scaling, so that any dimension added to them would automatically show the correct value, and not the actual 2D distance?

Thanks

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detail drawing
So let me conclude, this is not possible... Is it a planned feature?
Detail drawing
It seems that it is not a planned feature, although it's a quite common practice in drafting.

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