Putting a Drawing Into a Plane Above Another Inventor

AutoCAD can be your best friend. The latest version of AutoCAD is packed total of 3D tricks. Use the information below to make the about of AutoCAD. Would you believe that it took less than five minutes to produce the image beneath?

AutoCAD drawing An AutoCAD cartoon, in less than v minutes!

Follow these steps to produce a 2D view from a 3D model:

Click the Workspace Switching push on the status bar, and then cull 3D Modeling.
Toolbars, palettes, and Ribbon panels wink on and off, and soon AutoCAD settles down to display the Ribbon, as configured for the 3D Modeling workspace with a few boosted panels.
Ready a 3D model.
Create a new model or open an existing file that contains a 3D model.You can find the files used here at this link. Get to and download afd23.zip. The drawing named afd23a.dwg contains the model Utilize in the following steps.
Switch to newspaper space.
Click the Layout 1 tab near the lower-left corner of the screen.
Delete the existing viewport by clicking the viewport object (the frame of the viewport) then pressing Delete.
By default, new drawings created from a standard template file contain a single viewport. If you lot'll frequently create new drawings like this, fix a template file with the viewport already deleted.
Click the Base push from the Create View panel on the Layout tab of the Ribbon, and and then choose From Model Space from the driblet-down listing.
The VIEWBASE control creates several new layers automatically. By default, they're the reverse of the screen color (blackness or white), but they always print in blackness. Yous can modify these layers to any color yous desire.
Position the base view.
AutoCAD automatically selects what it thinks is an advisable scale, assuming that you lot'll place the three standard orthographic views and i pictorial view. However, you lot can modify it. Select a suitable place in the lower-left quadrant of the layout sheet.The Cartoon View Creation contextual tab appears on the Ribbon, a drop-downwards list of view options appears at the cursor, and an choice list appears on the control line.

The Drawing View Cosmos context tab of the Ribbon.
Define the base view.
Using any one of the three selection methods — Ribbon, cursor, or command line — ready the base view as follows:
- Orientation: The view shows what appears to be the bottom view of the role because AutoCAD defines summit, bottom, and so on relative to the world X,Y coordinates. Select Orientation and the Top to create the view you desire.
- Hidden lines: The preview image in paper space always displays in shaded mode, regardless of the visual style of the model in model space. Change the Hidden Lines option to Visible and Hidden. The view won't modify nevertheless, but don't worry — information technology will after you consummate the steps.
- Scale: This setting defaults to 1:4, which is suitable for your purposes if yous started from the sample drawing.
- Visibility, or Edge Visibility: This setting specifies how to display edges that are formed where tangent surfaces meet. The normal practice is not to display them, merely it sometimes causes features to disappear (or partially disappear). If you change this setting, hover the cursor over the Edge Visibility button in the Appearance panel of the Ribbon and pause for a few seconds; a much more than all-encompassing tooltip list so explains each selection.
- Move: Specify a new location for the view earlier it is finally created. This isn't such a big deal, though, considering views can always be hands moved afterwards.
- Exit: Or press Enter.
  You can edit any of these view specifications afterward, view by view.
Place the other drawing views.
When you finish placing and defining the base view, AutoCAD automatically runs the VIEWPROJ command. All yous demand is three quick clicks to place the elevation, isometric, and right-side views; then press Enter to have AutoCAD generate the views.
Edit the isometric projection.
Isometric projections don't unremarkably show hidden lines. Double-click anywhere in the isometric projection to bring upward the Drawing View Editor tab on the Ribbon.

The Drawing View Editor context tab on the Ribbon.

Click Hidden Lines on the Advent tab and choose Shaded with Visible Lines from the drib-down list.

If a Ribbon push button has a driblet-down list, the Ribbon displays the last push button that was used. Any one of 4 different buttons may be in this particular location.
The image below shows three ortho views and a shaded isomeric view, which was created in 37.6 seconds.
Average creation time: ix.4 seconds per view.
Add annotations.
Add dimensions and text notes in the newspaper space layout. Dimensions are associative to their matching geometry if you use object snaps to the geometry when you place them. While you're at it, possibly you can utilise VIEWDETAIL to create a detail view at a different scale.When you submit a drawing to your boss, they'll be impressed that you managed to create such a circuitous drawing, including the shaded isometric projection, in only 3 days.

Place text and dimensions on their own layers.

An isometric view and an isometric project are dissimilar creatures. An isometric view is normally drawn so that lines that are parallel to the 3 primary axes appear in their true length, and an isometric projection foreshortens them due to the tilting and rotating of the viewing angle of the object. Traditional newspaper-and-pencil drawings use isometric views, whereas AutoCAD creates isometric projections.

If you lot truly want an isometric view, the solution is just to ignore the usual rule about cartoon and inserting at full size. When creating an isometric projection, use this approximate scale factor to produce an isometric view:

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Yous can also edit the insertion later, to brand it match this calibration factor.

Editing views in AutoCAD

You can apply ii different types of editing to 2D views that were generated from 3D models.

You can edit the view specifications themselves (start with the easy one):

Select the base of operations view, and and then select the blueish grip box that appears in the eye of the view.
Drag and drop the view into a new location.
Interesting! If you movement the base view, all the ortho views projected from it follow along, with some constraints. The ortho views don't movement in perfect unison as a single grouping, just they maintain their orthographic human relationship to the base view.Similarly, yous can motility projected ortho views in only the direction that still maintains their ortho relationship to the base view. Meliorate withal, all attached dimensions (you hope) also follow along.

Yous tin also double-click a view and so change the specifications that were used to create it. Refer to Step 9 in a higher place.

To experience the magic of creating 2D views from a 3D model, return to model space and edit the model. For instance, add a 2d pigsty (hint: subtract a cylinder), extend the length of the peg, then return to the paper space layout. All your views and their dimensions are updated.

updated specs AutoCAD If anything changes, everything changes.

AutoCAD creates the views every bit a series of bearding blocks. They behave much similar regular blocks, but considering they don't accept normal names, you can't admission them directly to edit or explode them

Additional 3D AutoCAD tricks

To fully encompass the 3D capabilities of AutoCAD would easily require a full book on its own, simply meanwhile, here are a few high points:

Don't desire 4 views? If you lot don't desire four standard views, you lot tin create only the base of operations view and then alter its calibration factor to better suit the sheet size.
Need additional base views? If necessary, you tin accept more than than one base view in a single layout. For example, 1 large drawing might show an assembly and its component parts.
Didn't create enough views? Use the VIEWPROJ control to add more projected views subsequently. They don't take to project from the original base of operations view, but can projection from an existing projected view.
No longer need a view? You tin can delete a view, fifty-fifty a base view, without affecting the other views — except that doing then breaks the horizontal and vertical links between the views that were projected from it.
No 3D model in your cartoon? Yous can use the VIEWBASE command to generate views from a 3D model that lived in the model space of the current drawing.

AutoCAD's meridian model

You lot may have generated 2D drawing views from a 3D model in model above. But if the VIEWBASE command cannot find a 3D model in the current drawing file, information technology opens a standard file dialog box and so that you can browse for an Autodesk Inventor

Inventor is the 3D parametric modeling software from Autodesk, primarily intended for the mechanical design field. Inventor is fully parametric, in that dimensional constraints drive the profiles that define the solid features that consist of the parts that incorporate the assembly model that drives the 2nd drawing views that Jack built. If yous change a dimension on a 2d drawing of a office, everything updates, all the way down the line.

The Inventor file isn't inserted into the AutoCAD file. Instead, information technology'southward attached like an xref. VIEWBASE creates a 2d drawing view based on it, and additional views can be projected from the base view.

Here'southward the magic part: The AutoCAD drawing views are still linked back to the Inventor file and then that whatever changes made to the Inventor file reflect down to the AutoCAD file, updating it.

Better still, you tin can ship the AutoCAD DWG file to a customer or vendor without having to ship the source Inventor file. The AutoCAD file contains only anonymous blocks for the second views and has cipher in model space.

On the other hand, whenever the AutoCAD DWG file has access to the Inventor file, the AutoCAD drawing views update and remain in stride with whatever changes fabricated to the Inventor model.

Here are more tips for working with AutoCAD and Inventor files:

Mix and match 2D drawing views. If VIEWBASE finds an AutoCAD solid in your role, you tin tell it to ignore it and let you attach it to an Inventor file instead. You can accept more than i base view in an AutoCAD drawing, so you tin can mix and match second cartoon views. One or more than base views can come from an internal AutoCAD 3D model, and others can be linked to external Inventor files.
Select additional solids. If model space contains more than one solid, VIEWBASE allows yous to switch back to model space, where you can select and deselect solids to appear in the base view. For example, a model of a gearbox assembly might consist of many components. Separate views can exist created, perhaps on several different layouts: one showing an outside view of the unabridged gearbox (which doesn't need to include the internals such as gears and bearings); another showing only the input shaft, gear, bearings, and seals; and another showing the output shaft and its related components.
Choose a different scale. The VIEWDETAIL command generates detail views at scales unlike from the parent view.
Apply different section views. The VIEWSECTION command has v options for creating section views: Total, Half, Beginning, Aligned, and From Object. This command creates section views based on existing views in the layout. The cutting plane line that it generates tin be manipulated like any regular polyline, and the section view then updates accordingly.