Creating a drawing from an assembly

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In this video, will create a detailed drawing from an assembly.

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After completing this step, you'll be able to created drawing from an assembly.

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Use a named view at a table, modify components, properties and reorder balloons.

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In fusion 360, we want to get started with the gear reduction housing for production.

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It's important to note that this assembly has multiple components in it, some of which are visible and some are hidden.

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You'll note that inside of here, we also have a named views folder that has a new corner view.

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If we double click on this, this changes the view that we're looking at.

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This view can be used in a detailed drawing as well as here in the design workspace.

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Any time we want to create a new view, we simply need to rotate our design to our new view.

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Or right click on the name New folder and create a new named view.

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I'm going to leave this one called Named View because in our detailed drawing we're going to be using new corner view.

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But note that we can go back and forth between our named views at any point in time.

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Also back to our home position or our top right or front views.

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Notice that these also have an animation going between them and in some cases it sets it to Ortho graphic.

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And when we're talking about are isometric views, it's a perspective view.

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Now, that we understand where the named views are and we know that we've got an assembly of components.

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Let's go ahead and create a detailed drawing.

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I'm going to get started by using my workspace Drop down and going to drawing from design.

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Inside of here, when we create a drawing of an assembly, we have loads of different options.

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Notice that the contents can be the full assembly visible only or we can select the components that we want.

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I'm going to use visible only as several components were hidden such as the housing mount and its hardware.

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We're going to create a new drawing from scratch.

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We're going to change the standard to a SME.

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We want the units to be metric and we're going to change the sheets size to something a little bit bigger and use the size C. We're going to say okay.

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And when our detailed drawing is created we're going to bring the housing,

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and we're going to simply place it in the left corner and at any point in time we can go to a new view.

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In this case, I could use my new named view. I could use the Home view, any of you that I want.

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I can change the scale. We'll go 1-1.

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I can change the edge display but notice that at the very top my reference which is creating new and the representation which is the model.

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Those are both great out and we can't change them at this time. We're going to say okay.

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And now we take a look at the view that's been created.

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On the left hand side, you'll notice that anything that was hidden in the design workspace has now been suppressed here.

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However, some components we might not want to include such as the couplers and any of the coupler in this case dampers.

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So if we want to omit them from a parts list, we need to make sure that we select the checkbox and we D select them making them suppressed.

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So now we're looking at just the gear reduction housing and we're not taking a look at anything else that we don't want included on a parts list.

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From here, let's go ahead and select the view.

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We're going to go to tables and note that we have a couple different types of tables that we can use.

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We have the table with a small lightning bolt icon which automatically will create a parts list with balloons.

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A bend table, if we're dealing with a sheet metal part or it can have any other different type of table that can be created in fusion 360.

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For our purposes, I'm going to select parts list because I know that's exactly what I want.

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I'm going to place it in the upper right hand corner.

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Notice inside of here that it places our item number, our quantity the part number, description and material.

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In this case, noticed that the item numbers are not complete. Items one is missing.

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And if we scroll down and we take a look, you'll notice that we've got 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16.

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So we've got some things that are missing. But item number one is missing because that's the housing mountain.

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If I unsuppress it, notice that it adds it back to the design and when I suppress it, it's removed.

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Also note that we don't have balloons for all of the items.

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We can move these balloons around to different positions but they're not all there because not all of the components are visible.

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We're going to explore creating an exploded view, detailed drawing.

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But for right now, let's just explore our options when we're creating the parts list in the balloons.

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If we want to renumber these we can go to our tables drop down and we can select renumber.

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When we do this we can select the first item, the second item, the third, the fourth and then the fifth.

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When I say okay, notice that it automatically changes the numbers inside of my parts list.

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This is helpful especially if you've got suppressed items and you want to make sure that you're keeping those item numbers in order,

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that your parts list doesn't start at item number two.

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We'll also note that some of the items are missing a description.

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Idle shaft long and idle shaft short don't have a description.

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For that, we need to go back to our part and we need to find those inside of the browser.

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You'll notice that idle gear short and idle gear long are here. So let's go ahead and right click and navigate to their properties.

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So in this case the properties for part number. In description, you'll notice that the description is actually here.

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It's called a spur gear module to number teeth, 10 pressure angle and so on.

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So idle gear short and idle gear short are the part number and part name right now.

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But the description while it is filled here, it doesn't seem to be populating the detailed drawing.

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You'll also know that we have another item which is a McMaster carr part name that is missing from here.

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So when we take a look at these, we need to make sure that we are looking at the correct component.

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So I was looking at the idle gear short and not the idol shaft.

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When you have an assembly that has a lot of different components, it can be very hard to find those items in the browser.

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Which is why it's always a good idea to organize them in folders or to organize them by placing them in larger top level components.

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So for this example, we need to make sure that we find the idol shaft.

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Here, we have the idol shaft long.

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We can right click go to its properties and we can enter the description.

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In this case, will double click and we'll type in idle shaft long, we'll close that and we'll go to the idol shaft short and do the same.

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Go to its description. Double click and simply type idol shaft short.

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Generally for the part numbers, you would have a numerical indicator for your specific.

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But in this case, we're just gonna re-use the description and the name.

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Once we saved our part and we go back to the detailed drawing, we're now told that it's out of deal.

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We're gonna select "List updated" and you should see that the descriptions are now popilated for those two items.

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We will be adding more to this detailed drawing, so once we finish to save, let's go ahead and move on to next step.