Add geometry and dimensions to a drawing

00:02

add geometry and dimensions to a drawing.

00:06

After completing this video, you'll be able to use center line,

00:09

use center mark and add dimensions.

00:13

Infusion 3 60. Let's carry on with our Blade Guard Assembly drawing.

00:18

At this point we've added a lot of views but we

00:20

haven't added any annotations or dimensions before we get started.

00:24

Let's take the view that contains only the guard

00:26

post and let's create one more projected view.

00:30

We're going to drag this off to the left hand side,

00:33

creating a right view for first angle projection.

00:36

And then I want to move all these views over to the right

00:40

now.

00:40

We want to take a look at adding some geometry and dimensions to our drawing geometry

00:45

can be added to help identify things like

00:47

the center lines and center marks on designs.

00:50

For example, a center mark is great to use at the center of a bolt hole location.

00:54

It gives us a visual reference as well as something that we can measure to.

00:58

Using a center line.

00:60

Can help us when we're trying to find the

01:01

center point between a section view of a hole.

01:04

For example,

01:05

selecting these gives us the center line of that hole,

01:09

adding these different types of geometry to a design.

01:12

Can really help simplify the view and help us identify critical areas.

01:17

Now that we've added a few geometry marks. Let's go ahead and add some dimensions

01:21

from the dimensions. Drop down.

01:23

There are a lot of different types of dimensions but the dimension tool

01:26

will make use of adding linear aligned angular radius and diameter dimensions.

01:32

There are other types of dimensions for bigger parts or

01:34

parts that contain features that were created using patterns,

01:38

things like ordinate dimensions.

01:40

Baseline and chain dimensions can be extremely handy for our part.

01:44

We're going to focus on just using the dimension tool first.

01:47

I want to give an overall with using the dimension tool.

01:51

We're going to select the two bottom pieces and add a metric dimension.

01:55

Then I want to select the two sides and at a height.

01:59

We want to have an overall height. So I'll go from the bottom all the way to the top.

02:04

And then we want to add some information about these holes,

02:07

designs that were created directly in fusion 360 and holes using the whole

02:11

tool will have additional information that can come directly from those holes.

02:15

Things like the hole and thread notes.

02:17

Without these,

02:18

we can still create those notes manually but it is

02:21

a little bit more difficult and time consuming to do

02:24

Something to keep in mind with designs that are

02:26

imported versus ones that were created in fusion 360

02:30

can hit escape to get off the dimension tool and I

02:32

want to move my section view note over to the side.

02:36

If we want to modify any of these dimensions, we can double click on them.

02:41

We can add text outside of the brackets.

02:43

We can insert symbols and we can also use dual units or add tolerances if needed.

02:49

For example,

02:50

if I want to add alternate units such as inch

02:52

and if I want to include a tolerance value,

02:54

we can do plus or -11,

02:57

we can add it as a deviation or we can give it an upper and lower limit.

03:01

We can see how each of these are displayed based on the unit settings of the drawing.

03:06

I'm going to select clothes and leave those in that detail.

03:10

In addition to dimensions, we can also add text notes,

03:13

whole notes and bend notes on sheet metal parts.

03:16

In a case like this,

03:17

we can add a leader note and we can point

03:20

to a specific component in design and add a note

03:24

in this case. Full threat

03:27

here, you can see some basics of creating a detailed drawing

03:30

at this point. Let's go ahead and select OK. On the note

03:33

will fit our drawing view to screen and make sure that we say before moving on.

Video transcript

00:02

add geometry and dimensions to a drawing.

00:06

After completing this video, you'll be able to use center line,

00:09

use center mark and add dimensions.

00:13

Infusion 3 60. Let's carry on with our Blade Guard Assembly drawing.

00:18

At this point we've added a lot of views but we

00:20

haven't added any annotations or dimensions before we get started.

00:24

Let's take the view that contains only the guard

00:26

post and let's create one more projected view.

00:30

We're going to drag this off to the left hand side,

00:33

creating a right view for first angle projection.

00:36

And then I want to move all these views over to the right

00:40

now.

00:40

We want to take a look at adding some geometry and dimensions to our drawing geometry

00:45

can be added to help identify things like

00:47

the center lines and center marks on designs.

00:50

For example, a center mark is great to use at the center of a bolt hole location.

00:54

It gives us a visual reference as well as something that we can measure to.

00:58

Using a center line.

00:60

Can help us when we're trying to find the

01:01

center point between a section view of a hole.

01:04

For example,

01:05

selecting these gives us the center line of that hole,

01:09

adding these different types of geometry to a design.

01:12

Can really help simplify the view and help us identify critical areas.

01:17

Now that we've added a few geometry marks. Let's go ahead and add some dimensions

01:21

from the dimensions. Drop down.

01:23

There are a lot of different types of dimensions but the dimension tool

01:26

will make use of adding linear aligned angular radius and diameter dimensions.

01:32

There are other types of dimensions for bigger parts or

01:34

parts that contain features that were created using patterns,

01:38

things like ordinate dimensions.

01:40

Baseline and chain dimensions can be extremely handy for our part.

01:44

We're going to focus on just using the dimension tool first.

01:47

I want to give an overall with using the dimension tool.

01:51

We're going to select the two bottom pieces and add a metric dimension.

01:55

Then I want to select the two sides and at a height.

01:59

We want to have an overall height. So I'll go from the bottom all the way to the top.

02:04

And then we want to add some information about these holes,

02:07

designs that were created directly in fusion 360 and holes using the whole

02:11

tool will have additional information that can come directly from those holes.

02:15

Things like the hole and thread notes.

02:17

Without these,

02:18

we can still create those notes manually but it is

02:21

a little bit more difficult and time consuming to do

02:24

Something to keep in mind with designs that are

02:26

imported versus ones that were created in fusion 360

02:30

can hit escape to get off the dimension tool and I

02:32

want to move my section view note over to the side.

02:36

If we want to modify any of these dimensions, we can double click on them.

02:41

We can add text outside of the brackets.

02:43

We can insert symbols and we can also use dual units or add tolerances if needed.

02:49

For example,

02:50

if I want to add alternate units such as inch

02:52

and if I want to include a tolerance value,

02:54

we can do plus or -11,

02:57

we can add it as a deviation or we can give it an upper and lower limit.

03:01

We can see how each of these are displayed based on the unit settings of the drawing.

03:06

I'm going to select clothes and leave those in that detail.

03:10

In addition to dimensions, we can also add text notes,

03:13

whole notes and bend notes on sheet metal parts.

03:16

In a case like this,

03:17

we can add a leader note and we can point

03:20

to a specific component in design and add a note

03:24

in this case. Full threat

03:27

here, you can see some basics of creating a detailed drawing

03:30

at this point. Let's go ahead and select OK. On the note

03:33

will fit our drawing view to screen and make sure that we say before moving on.

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