Detailed annotation - Part 2

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Hello, my name is Thom Tremblay from Concepts and Design.

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This course is on a modern approach to creating documentation.

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The learning path for this course will look at annotating a 3D model and sharing the annotated model,

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analyzing tolerance relationships in an assembly, and then sharing the results of that analysis.

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This is part two of the second course on creating detailed 3D annotation.

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In this course, we'll be focused on editing view representations, filtering annotation visibility within those view representations,

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creating a new view representation, including making sure some appropriate dimensions are there,

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and then setting a specific annotation scale for that view representation.

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Continuing on with our model, we'll expand the View Representations and select the Front View.

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What I would really like to have for the front view is the back view for the view cube.

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We'll take a couple of dimensions and realign them with the back plane so that the leader is visible.

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Then, we'll start selecting dimensions that we can only see the edge of or are obscured in this view and turn their visibility off.

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This will only affect the visibility of the dimension in this design view.

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Once we have it filtered, we can lock it if we don't want new dimensions added to it automatically.

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If that's not a concern, you can leave it unlocked.

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But note that you might have to do some clean up in each of your design views.

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Next, we'll activate the Right View.

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Now I want to modify the viewing plane for this surface texture callout because I want it visible from this view.

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So we'll select the Change to Next Candidate Plane option.

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Then we can reposition it and start cleaning up the view.

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We can clean up the view directly in the design window or from the browser,

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because all of the dimensions, surface textures, and tolerance features are listed in the browser, so they can be selected like any feature.

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I want to apply some dimensions detailing the location of the drain hole.

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I'll place some dimensions to detail that feature.

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In this case, I'll even make them basic dimensions,

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locate them and align them to the correct plane,

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and then add a hole callout.

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Now with those key dimensions in place, I'll create a new view representation called Drain and use the Look At tool to get a view normal to the face.

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Zoomed in like this, the dimensions seem a little large and a little ungainly.

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So I'll right click on the View Representation and select Annotation Scale.

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We see that the auto scale is 2.84.

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So selecting 2 to 1 should give us a good look.

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In fact, that cleans things up a lot.

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We'll reposition and realign the dimensions and then lock that design view.

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Selecting these design views,

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we see how we can very quickly and very easily communicate the key information about specific features in our model using 3D annotation.