Creating a custom title block

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In this video, we'll create a custom title block.

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After completing this step, you'll be able to create title block notes and use a custom title block.

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In fusion 360, we're going to carry on with our gear reduction housing for production drawing.

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We're going to navigate back to the first drawing sheet.

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I notice that we have an assembly with the parts list and generally when you have a packet of detailed drawings,

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the first drawing sheet will have an isometric view of the part and just some basic information in the title block.

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So what we want to do is we're going to create a new drawing sheet.

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We're going to drag it all the way to the front.

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We're going to add a basic representation or base view of the model.

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We're going to use the home view.

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We're going to make this a 1-1 scale and we're going to say okay.

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We don't want to show everything in this detailed drawing. We're going to hide the housing mount for example.

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We're going to double click on it and we're going to change the tangent edge display,

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because we want to see the tangent edge display on some of these components and then we can close the drawing view properties.

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We also want to make sure that some of the hardware is hidden.

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And notice that inside of here, we want to go down to hardware 1, 2 and 3.

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Now that we have those items hidden. We also want to scroll down and we want to hide the couplers and the damper.

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We have a lot more room on this drawing sheet so we can double click on the view and we can actually make it a little bit larger.

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Let's go to a 2-1 scale and see how it fits.

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Once we're happy with that. Now let's modify the title block.

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There are a couple different things that we can do with title blocks.

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If we simply double click on it, we have access to all the attributes that were previously defined in this title block.

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If we want to modify this, we can select it.

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Then we can right click and we can either create a brand new title block and that will start from scratch or we can edit the title block.

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What we do by double clicking is editing the properties.

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So in this case let's select edit title block.

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It's going to use the antsy title block as its default and the new name by default will just simply add a one to the end.

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I'm going to remove that one and simply put custom at the end.

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Also note that we can start from scratch in here or we can start from a .dwg file.

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In this example, we're only going to be using the existing title block and simply modifying it.

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Once we modify the title block, it's going to show us the title block properties and give us some basic tools,

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such as creation tools for sketch elements, modification tools, and tools to add text and attributes.

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Inside of here, we need to think about the basic information that we might want on a custom title block.

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For example, the revision, the sheet number, maybe the scale, some basic information that might be important.

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For my example, here, I'm only going to have the project.

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So I want to remove everything else, I'm going to use a box to drag and then simply delete what I don't want.

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This is going to take a little while but let's go ahead and grab everything that we don't want, we can get rid of this line.

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And then we need to resize the outside of this box. So I'm going to select project and project.

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Now this is the text and this is the attribute, and I'm going to reposition them.

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So I'm going to move them down to the bottom right hand corner,

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keeping in mind that we might want to ensure that we have enough room for the actual project title,

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this is going to come from the file name, then we can take these lines and we can move the lines around.

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We can also use other sketch tools like trim.

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But it's just easier for us to move and resize these lines, because it's just a simple rectangle, going to make sure that it's horizontal.

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And now that we finished that, I'm going to go ahead and finish the title block.

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Once again, note that it's a little bit oversized here, so we need to make it a little bit bigger.

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And when we hover over this, notice that there are some sketch lines that we didn't get rid of.

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So I'm going to right click, and I'm going to edit the title block.

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So note when we come down here at the bottom, we have this line that already exists.

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I'm going to drag this out. And then I'm going to snap to that endpoint.

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And notice if we have trouble, we can always come back and use things like the trim tool and can trim that end, trim that end,

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right click and say okay, then I'm going to bring this line and I'm going to snap it to that endpoint.

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Then I want to make sure that it's horizontal.

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Then I can move my project text and then I can move the project attribute which automatically comes from the file name.

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Now I can finish the title block and you can see we have enough room there.

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When we zoom in, you can see project is a little bit on the top line, we might want to modify that.

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So select the title block, right click, and we'll add it one more time, and then we'll simply move it down a little bit.

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If it's trying to snap just move it a little bit farther and then finish the title block and now everything looks good.

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Gonna go back to a fit view, and I want to save this and then I'm going to move on to some of the other sheets.

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Now if I select a title block, and right click, I have the option to once again create a new title, block, edit or edit the properties.

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There's something else that we can do with the title block on this detail drawing.

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I'm going to go ahead and zoom up to the top, make sure that I fit this to screen and I'm going to go into my sheet settings,

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and notice that we have our sheet size and our title block.

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If we select Change title block, we can use our custom title block that we created on our first sheet,

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or we can use any other custom title blocks that we may have created.

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In this case for my second sheet I'm going to go ahead and use that custom title block, but I'm going to leave the defaults for sheets three and four.

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From here, let's make sure that we do save this detailed drawing before moving on to the next step.