Drawing Views
Drawing views are containers. Generally the contents are views of models. When you sketch in a drawing, or insert annotations or blocks, the entities belong to the active drawing view or drawing sheet.
In SolidWorks you create drawing views as follows:
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Standard views
, such as standard 3 views, various named model views (such as isometric), and relative views created automatically from the model.
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Derived views
(projected, auxiliary, section, detail, broken, broken-out section, alternate position views) created in one or two steps from another view (such as drawing a profile for a detail view).
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Empty views (for sketch entities, notes, and so on) inserted with the menu item Insert, Drawing View, Empty.
Any changes in the model are automatically reflected in the drawing views.
See SolidWorks Tutorials: Lesson 3 - Drawings