Create a detailed drawing from a design

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In this video, will create a detailed drawing from a design.

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After completing this step, you'll be able to create a detailed drawing from a design and create a sheet metal flat pattern drawing.

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In fusion 360 if you haven't already, you should set up a project and sub folders for all the supply data sets.

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To get started with this video, we're going to be using the coupler for production and sheet metal handle for production data sets.

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We'll get started with coupler for production.

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We're going to begin by navigating to the drawing from design workspace.

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We use the full assembly in all the default settings and select "OK".

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We need to begin by creating a detailed drawing.

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And I'm going to start by first selecting the back view and placing it in the upper left hand corner.

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I'm going to change the scale to be 2-1 and I'm going to allow tangent edges to show full length and say okay.

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Once we have this view, I'm going to select projected view and I'm going to select the base view.

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Projective view off to the right and down to the bottom.

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And I also want to create an isometric view and then use the green check mark to say okay.

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I'm going to bring the isometric view into the upper right hand corner but I'm going to leave the other three views where they are from here.

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From here, let's make sure that we save this detailed drawing.

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We're going to use the default name which is coupler for production drawing, and select "Safe".

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Then we want to go to the sheet metal handle.

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Sheet metal handle is going to be a flat pattern drawing.

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So first we're going to make sure that we navigate to the sheet metal tools and I'm going to begin by activating the simple handle component.

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I want to expand it to note that there's already a flat pattern here. So all we need to do is activate it.

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This will give us a flat pattern and now there are a few different ways that we can create a detailed drawing.

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The method that we're going to follow is by right clicking on the flat pattern component and select "Create Drawing".

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This will automatically use the flat pattern representation

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and we're going to create a new drawing with all the default settings for now and say okay.

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Once a detailed drawing starts, we simply need to place our view, determine what our settings need to be and say okay.

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Now that we have a default view, we can modify anything that we need in the sheet settings or the document settings.

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And then we can also add dimensions, we can add geometry and we can even add symbols and parts tables as needed.

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For this example, I'm going to simply add an overall dimension.

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This is going to be from the left side of my design to the right side of my design.

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So we'll go from left to right and notice it's 161.4 millimeters.

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We then can add a simple dimension to the center point of the first bend.

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And the center point of the 2nd bend.

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This can be done a few different ways by using different types of dimensions, such as Ordinate dimensions, Baseline dimensions or Chain dimensions.

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We're going to have escaped to get off the dimension tool and I want to reposition the 161.4 millimeter dimension and then move the 36 and the 81.07.

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This makes it a little bit cleaner and easier to read as they're all referencing the same starting point.

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If we want to add any additional information such as geometry, we can add center marks.

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This will help us find the center location of specific geometry in our case.

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In our case, the center mark for the opening is really the main thing we need to see.

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We could continue dimension in this drawing, but for now I'm going to go to a fit and make sure that I do save this before moving on.