Creating a drawing from an animation

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In this video, will create a drawing from an animation.

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After completing this step, you'll be able to create a drawing from a story board.

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

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Right now, we've already created an assembly drawing showing the completed assembled components,

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and we have a parts list that tells us all the different components we need.

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Now I want to add to that detailed drawing by using an exploded view animation.

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We're going to select the design. Drop down, go to drawing from animation.

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This will bring us into the animation work space where we can select a story board.

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This design only has one storyboard, so we simply need to select storyboard one.

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And in this case, instead of creating a new drawing, we're going to add it to the already existing gear reduction housing for production drawing.

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We can add it to the existing sheet one or we can create a new sheet.

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We'll use the same sme and metric units, but we can select the sheet size for the different sheet.

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We'll continue to use the c sheet size and say okay.

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It tells us right now that there's a version mismatch, we're going to get the latest because the version that we have requires a safe.

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Now that we have the update, let's go ahead and place this in roughly the middle left side of the drawing sheet,

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and we're going to change the tangent edge visibility and say okay.

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Now that we have our drawing view placed, let's go ahead and add a parts table.

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We're going to select parts list, place it in the upper right hand corner, which automatically adds all the balloons for us.

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Once again, you'll notice that some items are here hidden,

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but because they were hidden in the assembly animation and not in the design workspace, they're not automatically suppressed.

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So we will need to go in and suppress some of these components.

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Well, simply need to look through and find the ones that are hidden and we'll just toggle them off.

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This will be the couplers and the dampers as well. So make sure that you find all the components that were hidden.

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That way our parts table only shows the items that were interested in.

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Let's go ahead and zoom in a little bit and move some of these balloons around.

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We want to make sure that the balloons are easy to identify and in some cases you'll notice it's just simply not very easy.

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So at the end of the era there's a gray box and we're going to replace it on a different part of that bearing makes it a little bit easier to see.

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In some cases, for example, number 13. This idler shaft short.

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We're going to put the number 13 in a place that looks good and then we're going to move this end point.

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So that way it's easy for us to see.

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Once again, number 15 this washer, we're going to just simply move it down the edge a little bit.

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And then for this one here we'll just move it to the midpoint and reposition number 12.

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It does take a little bit of time, the automatic balloon creation is very good,

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but often times it just needs to be moved and just tweaked a little bit to make sure that it's nice and clean and easy to read.

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There will be some components that are simply going to be hard to get to.

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For example, number 11 you can see here is a needle bearing and number four if we scroll up, is a spur gear 16 tooth.

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So number four is actually pointing to the gear behind it and not the needle bearing itself,

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but it's hard to see because it's just behind that bearing.

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So what we're going to do is we're going to place it over here where it's a little bit more clear what we're actually looking at.

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So that way nobody has any problems.

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Another thing that we can do is double click on this view and we can change the orientation to use our new corner view.

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Notice that when we use the new corner view, it gives us a different perspective on the design.

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If I go back to another named view for example, we might get a better look at the overall design,

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but in this case our home view is probably going to give us the best position and I'll close that and notice that now all my balloons are gone.

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We can always use undo and it'll take us back,

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but keep in mind that if we're going to change any properties of the original drawing that those balloons will be removed,

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and we'll need to go in and create those balloons again.

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We can use the balloon option or B on the keyboard to do that.

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Now that we've repositioned some of these balloons,

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let's go ahead and just modify this last one here to make sure it's very clear that's pointing to that gear and now we can re number them if needed.

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Once again, we can find that in the tables drop down and select re number and just pick the order in which we want them to follow.

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In some cases it makes sense for them to be a numeric order,

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but in other cases you might want to keep their order or an order that makes sense across multiple drawing sheets.

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For example, in this case, the gear housing assembly is the top level, which is number one.

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But notice that it doesn't really encapsulate the fact that that is three different parts,

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and there's a reason for that and that's because our parts table is referencing the top level of this design.

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The gear housing assembly actually has multiple sub components.

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So if we want to reference those sub components, we need to include only them in a detailed drawing.

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In order to do that, we can create another drawing view and we'll do that by adding a new sheet and then we'll create a new base view.

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The new base view can have a new reference or it can come from either the animation or the assembly.

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I'm going to grab the exploded view animation and I'm going to place this here, using a 1-1 scale.

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And then I'm gonna say okay.

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I know that it doesn't fit on the screen. But what we're going to do is we're going to suppress everything but the gear housing assembly.

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What this does is it allows us to create a parts list of just the items inside of that top level assembly.

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And there are some other ways that we can do this but often times when we want to create a parts list that includes only a couple components.

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The best way to go about that is for us to suppress everything else and focus our attention solely on the components we need.

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Now that everything else is suppressed, noticed that we have balloon identifiers for these components and I'm going to go ahead and reposition them.

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And put number two there, put number three here at number one there.

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Now we can create a parts table and it's only going to include those three components, the front housing, the front cover and the back housing.

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So once again there are multiple ways in which we can create these drawings create these references.

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But on our second sheet, the detailed drawing is really looking at the very top level.

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And noticed that when we modified the drawing view in this reference,

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we've now affected both of the detailed drawing sheets because it's using that same reference.

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If we want to create a new reference when we create our new base view,

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what we need to do is determine whether or not we want to use the storyboard or if we want to use any of the other items such as the assembly,

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we're gonna say okay and we're gonna place a table in the upper right hand corner and then we're going to reposition our view so that everything fits.

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So keep in mind when you're creating these detailed drawings that there are a couple different ways that we can go about this.

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Also note that as we take a look at the parts list.

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When we double click on it, the structure can show all levels which will include all of those sub components.

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We now have the back housing, the front housing in the front cover.

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Keep in mind that when we do that, we still also have the gear housing assemble,

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and note the difference in the part numbering scheme, item number one and then each piece of that is 1.1,

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We can also determine what's displayed here, such as the part name and the mass.

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We can also turn off things like the material.

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If we only want to show the part number and description, we can also hide the description only showing the item, the quantity and the part number.

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It simply depends on what you want to see on your detailed drawings,

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and how you want to make the orientation and the configuration of those assembly components.

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So at this point we've created the top level assembly drawing with a parts list noting that the balloons only identify components that are visible.

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Next, we created a detailed drawing of the storyboard and which we showed all the components.

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We created a new detailed drawing using the same reference and when we modified the suppression state of those components,

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it modified the original detail drawing as well.

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So in this case I'm going to right click and I'm going to delete sheet three and then we added a new sheet using a new reference to the storyboard.

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Now we modified the parts list to allow all the components which included the three sub components of our gear housing assembly.

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So at this point let's make sure that we save and then we can move on to the next step.