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Auxiliary Views and Drawing Sheet

You can set auxiliary views and section views to be orthographically aligned to the drawing sheet.

Right-click the drawing view and click Align Drawing View > Horizontal to Sheet Clockwise or Horizontal to Sheet Counterclockwise.

Before being aligned to sheet	After being aligned to sheet clockwise

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