How to find Parent View of a Section or Detail View located on a different sheet in SOLIDWORKS [VIDEO]

 

With all of the information you need to show on your drawing sheets they get rather full and complicated.  You might want separate sheets with the Section and Detail views.  If you try creating a new sheet to add these views, you will notice that they are greyed out.  Section and Detail views require a parent view to reference.  Since this new sheet has no views, you cannot create these child views.

Section and Detail Views greyed out

One method is just to add a standard view, but place it off the page so it doesn’t get printed.  But this isn’t the best method as the View Label does not reference any view in the drawing sheets when printed.

Instead you can create a Section or Detail view on the original sheet, then drag and drop the view in the FeatureManager Design Tree onto another existing sheet.  Be sure the sheet that contains the Section or Detail views is active before dragging.

Drag Section View onto Existing Sheet in the Design Tree

Drag Detail View onto Existing Sheet in the Design Tree

Now you’ll have just the Section and Detail View on the second sheet that references the parent view on the first sheet.  If you have many sheets with various views, you can always find Parent View of the Section/Detail View by right-clicking on this view and select “Jump to Parent View” which will switch to the correct sheet and select the parent view.

Jump to Parent View Command

Here is a video demonstrating this workflow: