Chapter 5Creating and Editing

Drawing Views

• After completing this chapter, you will be able to– Understand drawing options– Create and edit drawing borders and title

blocks– Understand Styles– Create base and projected drawing views

from a part– Create auxiliary, section, detail, broken,

break-out, draft, and perspective views– Edit the properties and location of drawing

views– Retrieve model dimensions to use in drawing

views

Chapter 5 - Objectives

• After completing this chapter, you will be able to– Edit, move, and hide dimensions– Select drawing objects using a window

or a crossing window– Add automated centerlines– Add general dimensions– Create hole notes– Add annotations such as GD&T, surface

finish symbols, weld symbols, and datum identifiers

Chapter 5 – Objectives continued

Drawing Options• Drawing Options

– Retrieve Model Dimensions on View

– Center dimension text on creation

– Dimension Type

– Display Line Weight

– Title Block Alignment

Creating a Drawing• Creating a Drawing

– IDW file – Drawing Tools

• Drawing Views

• Sketch

• Drawing Annotation

Creating a Drawing• Drawing Sheet Preparation

– Default drawing sheet– Edit Sheet dialog box

• Sheet Format

• Custom Size

Border Creation• Border Creation

– Four lines and zone labels

– Default Border

– Default Drawing Border Parameters dialog box

• Sheet margins

– Edit

Title Block Creation• Title Block Creation

– Default Title Block• Drawing Properties

dialog box

• iProperties

– Creating a New Title Block

• Customized title block

• Existing, From scratch or AutoCAD data

• Title block

Styles•Controlling Styles

–Project File• Yes

• Read Only

• No

–Format Menu• Active Standard

• Styles Editor

• Update Styles

• Save Styles to Style Library

• Purge Styles

–Active Standard

Styles• Style Library

– Central storage location of styles – Style in document takes precedence over

a style library– Styles are filtered by the active standard– Local (cached) style in a document is

always available for use

Styles• Create New Style

– Styles Editor tool on the Format menu

– Right-click the style on which the new style will be based and select New Style

Styles• Edit Styles

– Click Styles Editor tool on the Format menu

– Click the style you want to edit.

Styles• Set Object Defaults

– Control how new objects will be formatted– Object Defaults option

Styles• Overriding an Object’s Style

– Select objects– Select style from the Style drop list

Exercise 5-1

• Sheets, Borders and Title Blocks

Templates• Templates

– Save your new drawing sheet, border, title block, drafting standard and dimension style as a template file

– Save Copy As

Creating Drawing Views• Creating Drawing Views

–Created from an existing part, assembly, or presentation file

–Saving in same directory as the parent file• Types..

– Base View

– Projected View» Orthographic

(Ortho View)

» ISO View

– Auxiliary View

– Section View

– Detail View

– Broken View

Creating Drawing Views• Using the Drawing View Dialog Box

– Component tab• File

• Design View/Presentation View

• Orientation

• Scale

• Scale from Base

• Weldment

• Label

• Show Label

• Style

• Style from Base

Creating Drawing Views• Using the Drawing View Dialog Box

– Options tab• Reference Data

– Line Style– Hidden Line Calculation– Margin

• Display– All Model Dimensions– Model Weld Symbols– Bend Extents– Thread Feature– Weld Annotations– Work Features– Tangent Edges

» Foreshortened– Show Trails– Hatching– Align to Base– Definition in Base View

• Positional Representation• Section Standard Parts• View

Creating Drawing Views• Using the Drawing View Dialog Box

–Base View• First view that is created

• Scale

• Other drawing views can be projected

• Orientation - preview image

• No limit

–Projected Views• Orthographic or isometric

• From any existing view

• Preview image

• No limit

Exercise 5-2

• Creating a Multiview Drawing

Creating Drawing Views• Section Views

– Created by sketching a line or multiple lines that will define the plane(s) that will be cut through a part or assembly

– Section View tool

Creating Drawing Views• Section Views

– Half Sections

– Aligned Sections

– Offset Sections

– Modifying Hatch• Right-click > Modify Hatch

Creating Drawing Views• Detail Views

– Drawing view that enlarges an area of an existing drawing view by a specified scale

– Detail View tool

Creating Drawing Views• Broken Views

– Removes a section or multiple sections from the middle of a long part and show just the ends

– Broken View tool

Creating Drawing Views• Break Out Views

– Expose internal components or features

– Break Out View tool• Boundary Profile

Creating Drawing Views• Break Out Views

– Depth Options• From Point

Creating Drawing Views• Break Out Views

– Depth Options• From Point

• To Sketch

Creating Drawing Views• Break Out Views

– Depth Options• From Point• To Sketch• To Hole

Drawing View Options• Perspective

View– Change View

Orientation– Perspective

views provide a realistic view of an assembly or component

Exercise 5-3

• Complex Drawing View Techniques

Editing Drawing Views• Moving Drawing Views

– Bounding box appears - rectangle

– Children or dependent– Orthographic or auxiliary

view– Detail and isometric views

• Editing Drawing View Properties– Edit a drawing view– Drawing View dialog box

• Deleting Drawing Views– Views that are dependent

Exercise 5-4

• Editing Drawing Views

Dimensions• Dimensions

– Retrieve Model Dimensions

– Edit and/or Change

• Dimension Visibility

• Dimension Value and Appearance

– Drawing (Reference) Dimensions

Dimensions• Dimensions

– Edit Model Dimension

– Change Model Dimensions Value

Annotations• Annotations

–Adding• Centerlines

• Surface texture symbols

• Weld symbols

• Geometric tolerance symbols

• Text

• Bill of materials

• Balloons

Annotations• Centerlines

– Center Mark

– Center Line Bisector

– Center Line

– Centered Pattern tools

• Automated Centerlines

• Centerline Settings– Apply To

– Threshold

– View Types

– Projection

Annotations• Text Positioning

– Positioning text

– Alignment• Vertical and

horizontal

– Offset• Apply a line-

spacing value

• Vertical and horizontal positions

Annotations• Adding more detail

annotations– Surface Textures – Weld Symbols – Feature Control

Frames

– Text and Leaders• Format Text dialog

box

Hole and Thread Notes• Adding…

– Hole & Thread Notes

– Hole Note Styles• Formatting

• Apply tolerance values

• Editing

Exercise 5-5

• Creating Text and Dimension Styles

Exercise 5-6

• Adding Dimensions and Annotations

SummaryTo Do This

Set styles Click Format > Styles Editor

Set sheet size Right-click the sheet and select Edit Sheet.

Insert a border Double-click the border in the Browser.

Insert a title block Double-click the title block in the Browser.

Edit a title block Right-click the title block in the Browser’s Drawing Resources section and select Edit.

Create an independent view Click the Base View tool on the Drawing Views Panel Bar or on the Drawing Views toolbar.

Create a projected view Click the Projected Views tool on the Drawing Views Panel Bar or on the Drawing Views toolbar. Select the base view, right-click and select Create View > Projected.

SummaryTo Do This

Create an auxiliary view Click the Auxiliary View tool on the Drawing Views Panel Bar.

Create a section view Click the Section View tool on the Drawing Views Panel Bar.

Create a detail view Click the Detail View tool on the Drawing Views Panel Bar.

Create a broken view Click the Broken View tool on the Drawing Views Panel Bar.

Create a break out view Click the Break Out View tool on the Drawing Views Panel Bar.

Create an overlay view Click the Overlay View tool on the Drawing Views Panel Bar.

Creating a draft view Click the Draft View tool on the Drawing Views Panel Bar.

SummaryTo Do This

Retrieve a model dimension Right-click a view and select Retrieve Model Dimensions.

Place a drawing dimension Click the General Dimension tool on the Drawing Annotation Panel Bar or on the Drawing Annotation toolbar.

Place center marks and centerlines

Click one of the four tools on the Drawing Annotation Panel Bar or on the Drawing Annotation toolbar.

Place a text note Click the Text tool on the Drawing Annotation Panel Bar or on the Drawing Annotation toolbar.

Place a leader Click the Leader Text tool on the Drawing Annotation Panel Bar or on the Drawing Annotation toolbar.

Enter drawing properties Enter drawing properties

Print a drawing Click File > Print

Applying Your Skills

• Skill Exercise 5-1• Skill Exercise 5-2