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Fusion 360 Tutorial - Getting Started in 2d Drawings

Fusion 360 Tutorial - Getting Started in 2d Drawings

Oct 13, 2020

Fusion 360 Tutorial - Getting Started in 2d Drawings

We're going to cover how to make this 3D model into a 2d drawing and stick around for the end. Because if you make changes to your 3d model, you can have it automatically update in the 2d drawing.

All right. I have a part file and Fusion 360, and I want to create a two D drawing based on this model. So first thing I'll do is save this file. Then come up to the new, pull-down find new drawing and we're doing it from a design, not a new drawing template. That's empty. That will then kind of tie into another model we're going to do from this design. Okay. Things it's asking me for the assembly. Do you want to do what's visible or select? This happens to be one component and in fact, one body. So I'm just going to create a drawing based on this part. Okay. So what we want to do is from scratch. We're not using an existing template. What standard would you like? It drawn to the way that it's going to detail out on the drawings ASMC versus ISO and then units.

Typically I think SME is an inches, but you can do millimeter. This is a big gotcha. With fusion three 60. I wish it wasn't. But when you make this selection, start your drawing and you notice everything's in millimeter or an inches, and that's not what you wanted. Don, Don, that's a problem. You have to basically start over. You can show duplicate units, things like that, but we're still, I'm still waiting on a fix from the fusion development team to allow us to change that that is most CAD packages can change the drawings after the fact. I think this would be huge if they could fix that. Can't wait, just be really careful when you select it. Now, what drawing size would you like to go on to eight and a half by 11 or a size B hit. Okay. It watches the drawing. Great. So the first thing that it's doing is placing a base view or the first view, and you can place this kind of wherever you like, but if you're going to follow it, typical drawing style where we've got the front view and you'll notice some options over here in this drawing view pallet, first off you can change the view that it references.

So we go to the top, it's going to look at the top view back from the part model. Pretty cool. So we go to the front view and this is where we can change the style or we're going to different wire frames and shaded visible with hidden edges. But you notice the preview is not updating until I hit. Okay. So we'll continue on, but I'm going to change the scale. So I'm going to do a one to two. It's going to make it larger. Now what about edge visibility? Do you want to see those tangent edges? We can't really tell much from this particular view, but there's not many tangent edges to show, but that's where you can turn this on and off as far as those additional like rounded edges and thread edges as well. Okay. We hit, okay. So now that view updates, and you can see it goes with the style that I selected and we have this view.

We can zoom in and out, but this is a two D version of what we just made and the design you can see there's a new tab where the drawing lives and of course saving is always a great idea. And this is saving as the drawing based off of the part model or the designs name, I'll save it in the same folder. Great. So it's saved and we're at the V zero of the drawing or B one, excuse me, now that we saved versus the V3 of the part model. So they can be different. And that's totally normal because this has to do with the 2d version of this design. All right. So let's continue on and we want to do some more views there's we can simply drag in any view we want, or we can do this intelligent version where we're basically projecting off of an existing and the way it projects is as if it's in a bathtub, right. And that has to do with maybe the standard that you're used to in America, we typically do. I believe what's called third angle projection where it's, you know, rolling it. I like the bathtub analogy. And if you want to see more about projection views, I made a video just on that. So check that out in the description. Okay. So I select these views. I drag them in. I can even drop in an isometric view.

Okay. When you're done, you can hit this right. Click. You can hit, okay. And that'll finish out the views. Now what about moving them at any time? You can drag them, pull that little hotspot and also use the move and rotate commands right from the toolbar. Now what about a section view and a detailed view? Now this is really cool. So you select the view that you care about first, then you go in and basically does this sketch line tool. It'll keep going to let you jog. So if you do have a complicated part that you want to kind of align with, you can very cool. But what I'm doing is drawing a line down the middle and dragging this over. And what this creates is a section view. You can see there's additional parts where we can change the style as well as even the scale and the name of the section view it.

Okay. And so it's cutting to this side and creating this section. You can see that's why the hole is showing up here when you're placing it. That's where you can control which side we're cutting to in which way it's doing the view. So that's our section view. Then if we get into a detailed view, same thing, select the view, and then you're effectively, it's letting you sketch a circle. And from there it's creating that circle. That then creates a section view, excuse me, a detailed view. And here we can also similar rules. We can do scaling and we can set this up to have the detail name and here we can come in and add notes and dimensions onto this detailed view. If we want to. Now let's also look at some of this built in geometry here. So first thing we can select edges and it'll drop in an automatic center line.

And so I can even drag and realign my section view and it updates. So now align with that center line. We can also, I believe we can make a relationship. So if I select these two, so this little tricky, you can't actually make a relationship, but you can snap it to that point. So now it's connected. So I've got the section view align with that center line and it updates the view through a center Mark on one of these circles. So I select it and it places it, or I could do a Cinemark pattern where I select one of these ins doing all of them for me all at once, along with this sinner, Mark, if want, if I want that great. So I'm going to change this different from the parent. Okay. And I want to add some dimensions I'm gonna come up.

And this is kind of the auto dimension of where I'm selecting edges and it's placing what are reference dimensions or dimensions built off the part model. So if I double click and change this to you notice when I double click on this dimension, if I were to try to change it, I can't really, this is a reference or measurement based off the part model. Now what about texts? Very similarly you can select an area or a zone and start your texts for notes. And then I could copy paste from my word document or from another drawing. If I have those handy, we also have the ability to do surface textures the GD and T and datums here along with notes and leaders from the toolbar. So to get into that in a different example, video, as well as even the bill of materials or the table that you might be thinking of, and the balloons that'd be more appropriate for an assembly.

Now, what about double-clicking? You can wake up the title block, and this is where you can come in and make these edits to your title block along with bringing in a, your own custom Tata block. That's something that they added a little while back, I believe in fusion 360. So we'll be exploring that later. Okay. A few other things to be aware of in the drawing. So you'll notice that it's referencing that design file, but also it's one sheet. And if we click this little plus sign, that's where he can get that second sheet, do additional dimensions, additional views, especially helpful when you're doing assemblies for a part that may not be necessary, but we could generate that. Now, what about making changes to this model? So if I have a sketch and I think I've got a little, little sketch there, okay, let's throw a sketch on this face.

I'm going to extrude this coming up. So we've added an additional boss. And what I want to do is hit save updates. The design file, go to the drawing tab. You'll notice that it gives you that update that the reference is out of date. Even gives you a warning. This is great. I love this and in Fusion. You can kind of choose to override it, which is cool. But what I want to do is just tell it to update. And I love this and all the CAD tools out there like solid works and Inventor and Fusion , how you can update the part model that design and it updates the drawing dimensions, update the views, update section views. I love that if you're ever had to touch AutoCAD back in the day you know, that this just took a ton of manual work to redo a simple design change like that, but you don't have to with fusion.

This is super cool. All right. So kind of going to the outputs, I'm gonna explore that a little again, different video to get into the nitty gritty, but if you want to output this a PDF or save maybe the table to a CSV, but do we want to save all the sheets or just one or a specific sheet? And do we want to do control the line weights? What will, you know, what do we want to pass along to the PDF? Hey, so if you'd like to learn a little bit more about drawings, have more of those in this playlist, along with some other videos that YouTube thinks will be helpful for you. Thanks so much for watching. See in the next video.

 

 

 

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