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Create drawing views with details from an assembly file.
Type:
Tutorial
Length:
3 min.
Tutorial resources
These downloadable resources will be used to complete this tutorial:
Transcript
00:03
In this tutorial, you create detailed drawings for a collar flange assembly.
00:09
With the Collar-Flange-Assembly.iam file open in Inventor, select the Flanged-Collar model.
00:15
Right-click to open the Marking menu and select Open.
00:19
This opens the Flanged-Collar individual detail file.
00:23
You can set the template for working with this file.
00:26
From the quick access toolbar, click Open.
00:28
Navigate to the Templates > Metric folder and select ANSI (mm).dwg.
00:35
Click Open.
00:36
To change the sheet size, in the browser, right-click Sheet and select Edit Sheet.
00:43
In the Edit Sheet dialog, from the Size drop-down, select C.
00:49
Click OK.
00:50
To start placing drawings, right-click within the sheet, and from the Marking menu, select Base View.
00:57
In the Drawing View dialog, the Flanged-Collar file is already selected, and you can make edits to the view.
01:04
Set the Scale to 2:1 and set the Style to Hidden Line.
01:09
Drag the view where you want on the sheet, and use the ViewCube arrows to orientate the view.
01:15
Move your mouse from this base view and click to place two additional projected views above and to the right.
01:26
In the Drawing View dialog, click OK to create the drawing views.
01:32
To show the interior detail of this design, you can create a section view.
01:38
On the ribbon, Place Views tab, Create panel, click Section.
01:42
On the base view, click the top edge line and locate the center of the line, as indicated by the green dot.
01:50
Create a section line by dragging the cursor up and clicking to select, then drag the line down to below the view and click to select again.
01:59
Right-click and select Continue.
02:02
Drag the section view to the right, and click to place the view.
02:07
Right-click the section view and select Alignment > Break.
02:12
You can now move this section view to a different location on the sheet.
02:17
To clean up the base view so that you do not have the line running through the entire drawing,
02:23
right-click the section line that you added and disable Show Entire Line.
02:29
You can also create a detail view.
02:32
On the ribbon, Place Views tab, Create panel, click Detail.
02:37
On the section view that you just created, click and drag a circle to select an area around the groove on the bottom right.
02:44
Drag the new zoomed-in section view and place it below the section view.
02:50
Your views are now ready annotate.
02:52
Make sure to save this drawing if you want work on it further.
Video transcript
00:03
In this tutorial, you create detailed drawings for a collar flange assembly.
00:09
With the Collar-Flange-Assembly.iam file open in Inventor, select the Flanged-Collar model.
00:15
Right-click to open the Marking menu and select Open.
00:19
This opens the Flanged-Collar individual detail file.
00:23
You can set the template for working with this file.
00:26
From the quick access toolbar, click Open.
00:28
Navigate to the Templates > Metric folder and select ANSI (mm).dwg.
00:35
Click Open.
00:36
To change the sheet size, in the browser, right-click Sheet and select Edit Sheet.
00:43
In the Edit Sheet dialog, from the Size drop-down, select C.
00:49
Click OK.
00:50
To start placing drawings, right-click within the sheet, and from the Marking menu, select Base View.
00:57
In the Drawing View dialog, the Flanged-Collar file is already selected, and you can make edits to the view.
01:04
Set the Scale to 2:1 and set the Style to Hidden Line.
01:09
Drag the view where you want on the sheet, and use the ViewCube arrows to orientate the view.
01:15
Move your mouse from this base view and click to place two additional projected views above and to the right.
01:26
In the Drawing View dialog, click OK to create the drawing views.
01:32
To show the interior detail of this design, you can create a section view.
01:38
On the ribbon, Place Views tab, Create panel, click Section.
01:42
On the base view, click the top edge line and locate the center of the line, as indicated by the green dot.
01:50
Create a section line by dragging the cursor up and clicking to select, then drag the line down to below the view and click to select again.
01:59
Right-click and select Continue.
02:02
Drag the section view to the right, and click to place the view.
02:07
Right-click the section view and select Alignment > Break.
02:12
You can now move this section view to a different location on the sheet.
02:17
To clean up the base view so that you do not have the line running through the entire drawing,
02:23
right-click the section line that you added and disable Show Entire Line.
02:29
You can also create a detail view.
02:32
On the ribbon, Place Views tab, Create panel, click Detail.
02:37
On the section view that you just created, click and drag a circle to select an area around the groove on the bottom right.
02:44
Drag the new zoomed-in section view and place it below the section view.
02:50
Your views are now ready annotate.
02:52
Make sure to save this drawing if you want work on it further.
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