1. Chapter 5 Creating and Editing Drawing Views

2. Chapter 5 - Objectives
After completing this chapter, you will be able to perform the following:
Make changes under the Drawing tab of the Application Options dialog box
Create base and projected drawing views from a part
Create auxiliary, section, detail, broken, break out, and cropped views
Edit the properties and location of drawing views
Retrieve and arrange model dimensions for use in drawing views
Edit, move, and hide dimensions
Add automated centerlines
Add general dimensions, baseline, chain, and ordinate dimensions

3. Chapter 5 – Objectives - continued
After completing this chapter, you will be able to perform the following:
Add annotations such as text, leaders, Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
(GD&T), surface finish symbols, weld symbols, and datum identifiers
Create hole notes
Open a model from a drawing
Open a drawing from a model
Create hole, general, and revision tables

4. Drawing Options Drawing Options Defaults View Justification
Default Drawing File Type
Section Standard Parts
Non-Inventor DWG File
Title Block Insertion
Inventor DWG Version
View Block Insertion point
Dimension Type Preferences
Defaults Object Style
Default layer Style
Line Weight Display
View Preview Display
Capacity
TRAINER NOTE
Emphasize the Drawing Options are work preferences or system settings. They do not change the active drawing.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Precise view generation can affect the time it takes for the view to generate. When working with large assemblies, you may want to uncheck the Precise View Generation option. Inprecise views can be changed later.
Get Model Dimensions on View Placement sets the default for view placement. You have the option to change the setting for each view that you place.
Show line weights affects only the on-screen display, not printing.
Alternate Title Block Alignment sets the default title block placement. You can place the title block at any location on the sheet.
PROCESS
You can change the drawing options at any time.

5. Creating a Drawing Creating a Drawing DWG or IDW files Drawing Tools
Drawing Views
Sketch
Drawing Annotation
TRAINER NOTE
You create drawings from templates that contain the definition for standard elements such as sheet formats, title blocks, borders, and revision blocks.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Autodesk Inventor drawings are stored in a separate file with an .idw extension. New drawings inherit their format from the template used to create them.
PROCESS
After creating the drawing, you:
Add drawing views of an assembly or parts.
Can add sketches associated to drawing views or the drawing sheet.
Add dimensions, symbols, centerlines, and other annotations.

6. Drawing Sheet Preparation
Sheets
Sheet format
Sheet size

7. Title Block Insertion Insert Title Block Delete existing title block
Insert title block from Drawing Resources folder
TRAINER NOTE
If you add property fields to title blocks, iProperty data from the model or drawing is used to enter and update information in the title blocks.
To change the default title block formats available in new drawings, change the templates used to create the drawings.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
You cannot directly edit a placed title block. You must edit the title block format.

8. Border Insert Border Delete existing border
Insert border from Drawing Resources folder

9. Property Fields Property Fields and iProperties Summary Project Status
TRAINER NOTE
If you add property fields to title blocks, iProperty data from the model or drawing is used to enter and update information in the title blocks.
To change the default title block formats available in new drawings, change the templates used to create the drawings.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
You cannot directly edit a placed title block. You must edit the title block format.

10. Creating Drawing Views
Created from an existing part, assembly, or presentation file
Save drawing in same directory as the parent file
Types..
Base View
Projected View
Orthographic (Ortho View)
ISO View
Auxiliary View
Section View
Detail View
Crop
Slice
Broken View
TRAINER NOTE
Emphasize that drawing views are associated with the model and are updated when the model changes.
You can place views from multiple model files in a single drawing. For example, you can place a view of an assembly and views of its individual parts or subassemblies in the same drawing.

11. Creating Drawing Views
Base View - Component tab
File - Options change depending upon selected file
Presentation File
Sheet Metal
iAssemblies
Representations
Orientation
Scale from Base
Scale
Label
Style
Style from Base
Create projected views immediately after base view creation
TRAINER NOTE
The choices change slightly if a weldment or sheet metal file is selected.

12. Creating Drawing Views
Base View - Model State tab
Options change depending upon selected file
Weldment
iPart
Member (iAssemblies)
Reference Data
Line Style
Hidden Line Calculation
Margin
Scale
Label
Style

13. Creating Drawing Views
Base View - Options tab
All Model Dimensions
Model Weld Symbols
Bend Extents
Thread Feature
Weld Annotations
User Work Features
Tangent Edges
Foreshortened
Show Trails
Hatching
Align to Base
Definition in Base View
Section Standard Parts
View justification
TRAINER NOTE
The available options are determined by the file selected on the components tab.

14. Creating Drawing Views
Using the Drawing View Dialog Box
Base View
First view that is created
Scale
Other drawing views can be projected
Orientation - preview image
No limit to number of base views
Projected Views
Orthographic or isometric
From any existing view
Preview image
TRAINER NOTE
You can place multiple base views in a drawing.
Projected views are associated with the parent view from which it is projected.

15. Exercise 5-1 Creating a Multiview Drawing TRAINER NOTE
Assign exercise.

16. Creating Drawing Views
Auxiliary Views
Created by selecting an edge
Projected at 90 degrees
TRAINER NOTE
Show how to create the cutting line both ways: directly as part of the section view creation, and defining the cutting line in a sketch associated to the parent view.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Same as auxiliary view.

17. Creating Drawing Views
Section Views
Created by sketching a line or multiple lines that will define the plane(s) that will be cut through a part or assembly
Section View command
TRAINER NOTE
Show how to create the cutting line both ways: directly as part of the section view creation, and defining the cutting line in a sketch associated to the parent view.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Same as auxiliary view.

18. Creating Drawing Views
Section Views
Half Sections
Projected Sections
Aligned Sections
Offset Sections
Slice
Modifying Hatch
Right-click > Edit

19. Creating Drawing Views
Hatching Isometric Views
Edit View

20. Creating Drawing Views
Slice View
Based on sketch in source view
Target view = projected, orthographic or isometric

21. Creating Drawing Views
Detail Views
Drawing view that enlarges an area of an existing drawing view by a specified scale
Detail View tool
Smooth Cutout Shape
Full Detail Boundary
Connection line
TRAINER NOTE
Note that a detail view is not aligned to the parent view.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION

22. Creating Drawing Views
Break Views
Removes a section or multiple sections from the middle of a long part and show just the ends
Break command
TRAINER NOTE
This is a good place to show dialog box help. (Click the help button in the dialog box.) Point out the descriptions for the orientation buttons.

23. Creating Drawing Views
Break Out Views
Expose internal components or features
Break Out tool
Boundary Profile
TRAINER NOTE
This may be another place to show procedural help.
Briefly show how to create a sketch associated to a view. Point out that 3 of the 4 methods of creating a breakout view require a profile defined in sketch associated to the view.

24. Creating Drawing Views
Break Out Views
Depth Options
From Point
TRAINER NOTE
Point out that boundary must be defined on a sketch associated to the view before you can use this method. The boundary must be a closed profile.

25. Creating Drawing Views
Break Out Views
Depth Options
To Sketch

26. Creating Drawing Views
Break Out Views
Depth Options
To Hole
Through Part
Remove drawing content from inside a closed profile through selected components located in the browser.
TRAINER NOTE
If the hole feature is hidden in the view, click the Show Hidden Edges button to temporarily show it.

27. Creating Drawing Views
Cropped Views
Shows a portion of a view
Rectangular
Circular
Based on a sketch in a view
TRAINER NOTE
If the hole feature is hidden in the view, click the Show Hidden Edges button to temporarily show it.

28. Move Drawing Views Moving Drawing Views Move cursor over drawing view
Select bounding box
Click and drag view
Children or dependent
Orthographic or auxiliary view
Detail and isometric views
TRAINER NOTE
Dependant drawing views that are aligned to the parent can be moved only within the defined alignment.
For dependent drawing views, the dialog box used when they were placed is opened to edit them.

29. Exercise 5-2
Creating Break, Section, Auxiliary, and Detail Views

30. Editing Drawing Views Editing Drawing View Properties
Edit a drawing view
Drawing View dialog box
Deleting Drawing Views
Views that are dependent
TRAINER NOTE

31. Break and Align Views Break alignment Create alignment Horizontal
Vertical
In Position

32. Replace Model Reference
Change the component a drawing references
Part
Assembly
Presentation
Same file type
Similar size

33. Exercise 5-3
Editing Drawing Views

34. Dimensions Dimensions Automatically retrieve dimensions
Retrieve Model Dimensions
Edit and/or Change
Dimension Visibility
Dimension Value and Appearance
Automatically retrieve dimensions
TRAINER NOTE
Emphasize the difference between model dimensions and drawing dimensions.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
If you edit the value of model dimensions in the drawing, it will change the model. (Applicable if the option was enabled during installation.)

35. Dimensions Dimensions Edit Model Dimension
Change model dimensions value
Option available when Inventor is installed
TRAINER NOTE
Emphasize the difference between model dimensions and drawing dimensions.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
If you edit the value of model dimensions in the drawing, it will change the model. (Applicable if the option was enabled during installation.)

36. Selecting Dimensions Quick Access toolbar
Select All Inventor Dimensions
Select All Model Dimensions
Select All Overridden Dimensions
Select All AutoCAD Dimensions

37. Auto-Arrange Dimensions
Rearrange selected dimensions
Select dimensions in one or multiple views
Arrangement based on dimension style

38. Dimensions General dimensions Move and center dimension text
Not parametric = Associative
Move and center dimension text
Centerline to dashed line

39. Dimensions Add dimensions to an isometric view
Retrieve or add general dimensions
Space bar - Toggle between planes
Show All Part / Visible Work Planes
TRAINER NOTE
Emphasize the difference between model dimensions and drawing dimensions.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
If you edit the value of model dimensions in the drawing, it will change the model. (Applicable if the option was enabled during installation.)

40. Exercise 5-4
Adding Dimensions

41. Baseline Dimensions / Set
Window / cross objects
Individual dimensions
Baseline Dimension Set
Select objects Window / cross methods
Dimensions held as a set

42. Chain Dimensions / Set Chain Dimension Chain Dimension Set
Window / cross objects
Individual dimensions
Chain Dimension Set
Select objects Window / cross methods
Dimensions held as a set

43. Exercise 5-5
Creating Baseline and Chain Dimensions

44. Ordinate Dimensions / Set
Select points or window / cross objects
Individual dimensions
Ordinate Dimension Set
Dimensions held as a set

45. Styles Editor
Edit existing style
Create new style based on current

46. Annotations Annotations Adding Centerlines Surface texture symbols
Weld symbols
Geometric tolerance symbols
Text
Bill of materials
Balloons

47. Annotations Centerlines Automated Centerlines Centerline Settings
Center Mark
Center Line Bisector
Center Line
Centered Pattern tools
Automated Centerlines
Centerline Settings
Apply To
Threshold
View Types
Projection
TRAINER NOTE
There are two methods of placing center marks and centerlines, manually placing them one at a time or selecting a view and applying automated centerlines to the view.
The format for both the manual and the automated centerlines is controlled by settings in the active drafting standard.

48. Annotations Adding more detail annotations Surface Textures
Weld Symbols
Feature Control Frames
Text and Leaders
Format Text dialog box
TRAINER NOTE
These annotations use default text style set in the active drafting standard. Changing the text format with this dialog box overrides the default text style.

49. Hole and Thread Notes Adding… Hole & Thread Notes Hole Note Styles
Formatting
Apply tolerance values
Editing
Side Views
TRAINER NOTE
Emphasize the importance of setting up the hole note formats in the dimension style.
When you place hole notes, they use the hole note and tolerance settings defined in the active dimension style. Edits of existing hole notes are overrides of the dimension style.

50. Exercise 5-6
Adding Annotations

51. Open Model from Drawing
To open a part or assembly file from a drawing file
Click Open
In view
From browser

52. Open a Drawing from a Model
To open a drawing from a part or an assembly file
In browser click Open Drawing
Drawing must be the same name as the part, assembly, or presentation file

53. Hole Tables
Hole Table
Types
Selection
View
Features
Edit hole table

54. Exercise 5-7
Creating Hole Tables

55. Tables General Empty – Specify # of Rows and Columns From Excel Bends
iParts and iAssemblies

56. Revision Table
Entire drawing
Active Sheet
Tags
iProperties

57. Applying Your Skills
Skill Exercise 5-1 Skill Exercise 5-2

58. Checking Your Skills
True__ False__ A drawing can have an unlimited number of sheets.
Explain how to change a sheet’s size.
True__ False__ There can only be one base view per sheet.
True__ False__ An inclined view is a view that is projected perpendicular to a selected edge or line in a base view.
True__ False__ An isometric view can only be projected from a base view.
True__ False__ A section view is a view created by sketching a line or multiple lines that will define the plane(s) that will be cut through a part or assembly.
True__ False__ Drawing dimensions can drive dimensional changes parametrically back to the part.
Explain how to shade an isometric drawing view.
True__ False__ When creating a hole note using the Hole/Thread Notes command, circles that are extruded to create a hole can be annotated.
True__ False__ An assembly model can open an individual part from its browser; however, it cannot open a drawing file from the browser.