A conversation-specific public summary of solidworks macro welding face, distilled from the supplied export. The detailed excerpts remain available in the released note file.
CHAT-0343REV EXPORT-03
AI narration using Robert's voice. SolidWorks macro welding face / short introduction.
OPEN FULL SIZE ↗A highlighted planar face and its outward normal connect the weldment to a standard drawing view.Explanatory drawing based on this record
Conversation-specific knowledge extracted from the solidworks macro welding face discussion.
EXTRACTED KNOWLEDGE / HOW-TOFROM CONVERSATION
QUESTION / CONTEXTwrite me a macro that orients the current body of a welded part so the largest face is looking at me solid works 2025 i want this to run on the current sheet only
IMPORTANT GUIDANCE
uses the selected drawing view on the current sheet
if no view is selected, it uses the first model view on the current sheet
looks at the referenced weldment part
finds the largest planar face
determines which standard direction that face is closest to
sets that drawing view to Front / Back / Top / Bottom / Left / Right
rebuilds the sheet
Set swApp = Application.SldWorks
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2026.04.15EXPORT-04
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