Create technical drawing templates

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Create technical drawing templates.

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After completing this video,

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you'll be able to create a title block template.

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In fusion,

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let's get started with the supplied data set,

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internal combustion engine for drawing.

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F3D.

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We're gonna be talking about title block templates,

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but also about drawing templates in general.

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Creating a title block template

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that needs to be reused has to be done inside of a drawing template.

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While we can modify and create title block templates in individual drawings,

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if you need to spend the time to create a template,

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it's a good idea to do everything all at once.

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So,

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in this video,

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we're gonna talk about some of the different ways that we can create templates.

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The first is to start with a detailed drawing and use that as the basis for a template,

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but more commonly,

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you're going to be going to the file menu

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and creating a new drawing template.

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It's important to note that you can start from scratch or a pre-existing template.

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So if you already have a drawing template,

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you can use that as the basis for your design.

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We're going to be using from scratch,

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and we're going to start by selecting our standard.

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Remember,

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just like in drawings,

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the standard is going to be fixed.

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Once we determine a standard,

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that will dictate

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not only how things like symbols and dimensions get displayed,

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but also first versus third angle projection.

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Using the ASME standard is typical in the United States,

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and that's gonna be using a third angle projection.

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The ISO standard is typical across the world and that uses a 1st angle projection.

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We're gonna be using a B sheet size and say OK.

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From here,

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a new drawing template is created.

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We have a couple of different areas that we need to explore,

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and it's important that we understand that because we now have automated modeling,

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There are going to be differences in the way you create

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a template for automated drawings versus creating a manual drawing.

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If you are creating a template for automated drawings,

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the main areas you want to focus on are inside of your document settings.

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For each sheet,

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you've got automatic settings for things like the sheet type.

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You can also change settings for things like components that you wish to omit,

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information about whether or not to include a parts list,

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and you can push all this information to your template.

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There are other general settings that you can set in here as well,

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and these will all be applicable for some of these

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defaults that you see when you're creating new drawings.

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But

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some things you should not do or create base

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views or what's typically called a smart template,

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if you are planning on using automated drawings.

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When we start a detailed drawing,

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the default title block is shown in the bottom right.

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Generally,

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what we want to do is right click and select edit title block.

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This allows us to create a new title block by modifying the existing one.

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If you want to import a title block or start from scratch,

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you can do that as well.

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But in this case,

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we're going to start by editing the original title block as a copy.

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We've got a couple of modification tools,

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things like trim.

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We can go in and we can remove this area on the left-hand side.

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Title blocks often contain information about

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tolerances in your detailed drawing,

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information about when the drawing was created,

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who created it,

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and who checked it,

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and so on.

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Some of this information can be automatically populated

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while others need to be manually entered.

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In this case,

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let's select code and hit delete,

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and then double click on this code or this text here,

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which is going to be just a note,

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and we're gonna set this to material.

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From here,

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we're gonna add a new attribute.

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An attribute is going to be a way for

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us to gather information automatically from our design.

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Some of these attributes can automatically populate,

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such as material,

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mass,

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part name and number,

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and so on.

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Some of the information needs to be manually entered,

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however.

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In this case,

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let's finish the title block

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and note inside of our title block,

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anything that's listed with brackets around it and it's currently visible

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is information that will automatically be populated

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the sheet number,

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the sheet scale,

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the model material,

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the size,

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the project,

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and the title.

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All that information will be populated automatically

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based on things like file names,

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the name of the model,

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and the material that's been applied to it.

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Another thing that we want to focus on is the creation of placeholder views.

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The placeholder views are important because they'll dictate the number of

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drawing sheets that will be created based on your design.

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For example,

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if we use an assembly representation,

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it'll be using the entire assembly and the design.

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If we use a component representation,

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we'll be creating a new drawing sheet for

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each active visible component in our assembly.

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For our example,

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we're going to focus solely on the component,

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but note that we do also have folded and flat.

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We also have a storyboard here.

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So,

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let's use component and let's place it in the bottom left-hand corner

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because we are using the ASME standard,

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which is going to be 3 angle projection.

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We're gonna say,

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OK,

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and then we're going to navigate to the projected placeholder views.

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We'll place one vertically,

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horizontally,

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and then isometric and say,

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OK.

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From here,

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we're gonna save our drawing template.

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We're gonna select save,

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place it in the same location as our data sets,

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and we're just gonna call this DFM template.

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Once we've created our template,

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we can close it and then we can try to apply it.

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Now we're gonna go to new drawing.

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We're gonna create it from design,

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and we want to make sure that the template selected is

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going to be the DFM template that we've just created.

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If you don't see yours in this list,

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make sure that you browse the location and your data panel where it's saved.

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Next,

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we also want to change the contents to be the full assembly,

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as this is everything that is currently shown as well as anything that's hidden,

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and we're going to select all levels.

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We'll say,

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OK,

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and allow it to create our new drawing based on our template.

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This should create a drawing sheet for each of the components in our assembly.

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If some components have hidden bodies,

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those will be included as well.

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For example,

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we can see the piston assembly has a square or block body inside the design.

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If we expand this,

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you'll note that in the bodies folder,

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we've got the piston,

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but we've also got these other bodies.

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We can hide the other bodies inside the drawing view,

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that way we're only showing the piston.

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Each of these drawing views is created based on a single component in the design,

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and each of the views is represented by the placeholder views that we created.

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We're not going to be using this specific drawing in the next example,

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so we can close it without saving.

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Also note,

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if you are exploring using fusion for drawings,

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there is an automatic drawing option.

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This will allow you to automatically create a drawing

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and use various options and settings to pre-populate not only the drawing views,

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but also the dimensions.

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You can also create templates for these,

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but it's important to note that templates for automated drawings

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oftentimes will omit the placeholder views.

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You'll simply need to create a drawing template that has the

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appropriate title block and the various settings for each sheet.

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At this point,

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let's cancel out and not use that,

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but I do suggest that you check out the automated drawings.

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At this point,

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make sure that you save any changes that you've made to the design,

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so we can move on to the next step.