Chapter 5

Creating and Editing

Drawing Views
 Chapter 5 - Objectives
• After completing this chapter, you will be
able to
– Understand drawing options
– Create and edit drawing borders and title blocks
– 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
– Edit, move, and hide dimensions
– Select drawing objects using a window or a
crossing window
– Add automated centerlines
 Chapter 5 – Objectives continued
• After completing this chapter, you will be able to
– Add general dimensions
– Add annotations such as GD&T, surface finish symbols,
weld symbols, and datum identifiers
– Create hole notes
– Create chamfer notes
– Open a model from a drawing to edit
– Manage drawing sheets
– Create baseline dimensions
– Create ordinate dimensions
– Create hole tables
– Create general tables
– Plot multiple drawing sheets
 Drawing Options
• Drawing Options
– Retrieve Model
Dimensions on View
– Center dimension text
on creation
– Dimension Type
– Object Style
– View Justification
– Display Options
– 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
 Title Block Insertion
• Insert Title Block
– Delete existing title
block
– Drawing Resources
Folder
 Title Block Fields
• File iProperties tabs
– Summary
– Project
– Status
 Styles
•Controlling Styles
–Project File
• Yes
• Read Only
• No
• Styles Library
–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
• Creating Text and Dimension Styles
 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
• Component tab
– File - Options change depending upon selected file
• Presentation File
• Sheet Metal
• iAssemblies
• Representations
– Orientation
– Scale from Base
– Scale
– Label
– Style
– Style from Base
 Creating Drawing Views
• Model State tab - Options change depending
upon selected file
– Weldment
– iPart
– Member (iAssemblies)
– Reference Data
• Line Style
• Hidden Line Calculation
• Margin
– Scale
– Label
– Style
 Creating Drawing Views
• Options tab
– All Model Dimensions
– Model Weld Symbols
– Bend Extents
– Thread Feature
– Weld Annotations
– User Work Features
– Tangent Edges
• Foreshortened
– Show Trails
– Hatching
– Align to Base
– Definition in Base View
– Section Standard Parts
– View justification
 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 to number of base views
–Projected Views
• Orthographic or isometric
• From any existing view
• Preview image
• No limit
 Exercise 5-2
• Creating a Multiview Drawing
 Creating Drawing Views
• Auxiliary Views
– Created by
selecting an edge
– Normally projected
at 90 degrees
 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
 Creating Drawing Views
• Draft Views
– 2D Views
– Parametric
– Based on sketch(s)
 Drawing View Options
• Perspective
View
– Change View
Orientation
– Perspective
views provide
a realistic view
of an assembly
or component
 Exercise 5-3
• Creating Broken, Section, Auxiliary, and
Detail Views
 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
 Editing Drawing Views
• Drawing View Alignment
– Break associativity
• Label Views
– Realign Views
• Horizontal
• Vertical
• In Position
 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
 Copy Dimension Properties
• Style
• Layer
• Text
• Precision
and tolerance
• Inspection
• Arrowhead
Shape
• Arrowheads
Inside /
Outside
 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
• Adding more detail
annotations
– Surface Textures
– Weld Symbols
– Feature Control
Frames
– Text and Leaders
• Format Text dialog
box
 Annotations
• Text Positioning
– Positioning text
– Alignment
• Vertical and
horizontal
– Offset
• Apply a line-
spacing value
• Vertical and
horizontal positions
 Hole and Thread Notes
• Adding…
– Hole & Thread
Notes
– Hole Note Styles
• Formatting
• Apply tolerance
values
• Editing
– Side Views
 Exercise 5-5
• Adding Dimensions and Annotations
 Opening a Model from a
Drawing to Edit
• Open file types
– Part
– Assembly
– Presentation
 Managing Drawing Sheets
• New Sheets
• Copy existing sheet
 Creating Sheet Formats
• Predefined layout that can set
– Sheet size
– Border
– Title block
– Views
• Base
• Projected
Copying Views Between Sheets
• Copy views
• Make sheet active
• Paste views
Move Views Between Sheets
• In Browser
• Move view(s)
from active
one sheet to
another
 Baseline Dimensions / Sets
• Baseline Dimension
– Window / cross objects
– Individual dimensions
• Baseline Dimension Set
– Window / cross objects
– Dimensions held as a set
 Exercise 5-6
• Creating Baseline Dimensions
 Ordinate Dimensions / Sets
• Ordinate Dimension
– Select points or window / cross
objects
– Individual dimensions
• Ordinate Dimension Set
– Select points or window / cross
objects
– Dimensions held as a set
 Hole Tables
• Hole
– Location
– Size
– Edit
 Exercise 5-7
• Creating Hole Tables
 Creating Drawings of 3D Wires
• Consumed
sketch
• Unconsume
d Sketch
• 2D
• 3D
 The Table Command
• iPatrs
• iAssemblies
• Excel
• Edit
 Multi Sheet Plotting
• plot multiple drawing sheets
• Click Start > All Programs > Autodesk >
Autodesk Inventor 11 > Autodesk Multi-
Sheet Plot
 Summary
To Do This
Set drawing 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
 Summary
To 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.
 Summary
To Do This
Retrieve a model dimension Click the Retrieve Dimensions tool on the
Drawing Annotation Panel Bar
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 Click one of the four tools on the Drawing
centerlines 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
Create a hole/thread note Click the Hole/Thread Note tool on the
Drawing Annotation Panel Bar or on the
Drawing Annotation toolbar
Create a chamfer note Click the Chamfer Note tool on the Drawing
Annotation Panel Bar or on the Drawing
Annotation toolbar
 Summary
To Do This
Place a leader Click the Leader Text tool on the Drawing Annotation
Panel Bar or on the Drawing Annotation toolbar
Create baseline dimensions Click the Baseline Dimension tool on the Drawing
Annotation Panel Bar or on the Drawing Annotation
toolbar
Create ordinate dimensions Click the Ordinate Dimension tool on the Drawing
Annotation Panel Bar or on the Drawing Annotation
toolbar
Create a hole table Click one of the three tools on the Drawing
Annotation Panel Bar or on the Drawing Annotation
toolbar
Create a table Click the Table tool on the Drawing Annotation Panel
Bar or on the Drawing Annotation toolbar
Enter drawing properties Click File > iProperties

Print a drawing Click File > Print

Project Exercise Chapter 5
 Applying Your Skills
• Skill Exercise 5-1
• Skill Exercise 5-2