1. Extracting Drawings - DEMO
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Extracting Drawings - DEMO
Although most demos are implemented with word documents, this demo employs slides so that more details can be shown to the students as the drawing is constructed.
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2. Today’s Objectives Formal Drawing Components: SW07 In-Class Activity
Exploded View
Extracted Drawings
SW07 In-Class Activity
SW07 Out-of-Class Homework Assignment

3. Formal Drawings
Definition: First page of a Working Drawing Set – see SW_08
Formal Drawing Components: Demo with Wind Turbine Assembly from SW-07 EEIC website
Extracted Drawings
Explode View
Bill of Materials
Balloons

4. Formal Drawings Formal Drawing Components:
Definition: Detailed multi-view representations of a finished part
Formal Drawing Components:
Extracted Drawings
Extracted Views
Dimensioned Features
Title Block
Dimensions
Size and Type of Features
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5. Extracted Views
Purpose: create 2D engineering drawings from solid models
Top View
Isometric
View
Part File to Drawing File
Place Base View
Project Top, Right
Isometric View
Base View
Right View
Part File to Drawing File
Place Base View
Project Top, Right, and Isometric Views
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6. Detailed Features Automatically Aligned Features Hidden Lines
Orthographic Views
NOT on Isometric Views (unless necessary)
Circular Features
Centerlines
Center Marks
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7. Title Block Specific to Company Part Name Scale Units Author Date
Any Other Necessary Information
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8. The OSU Title Block Template
Drawing Title
Drawn By
Scale
Instructor
Hour
Units
Seat
Drawing No. Date
TOP ORTHO
ISOMETRIC
ISOMETRIC SCALE NOTE
RIGHT SIDE ORTHO
FRONT ORTHO
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9. Load Files from SolidWork-7 EEIC website
Place the following files in your SolidWorks folder:
Extracting_Drawing_Demo_Part.SLDPRT
Extracting_Drawing_Demo_Drawing.SLDDRW
The following slides are intended to be used as an Instructor led demonstration with the students replicating the shown operations. Note that the drawing created in this Demo will be used in the following Dimensioning Demo.
INSTRUCTOR NOTE: If any student does not successfully complete the extracted drawing in this demo, there is a completed extracted drawing available from the Instructors Demo – Dimensioning Part 1 on SolidWorks-8 EEIC website.
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10. SolidWorks: Drawing File
Open the Extracting_Drawing_Demo_Drawing.SLDDRW and use the “Model View” button to place a base view.
Extracting_Drawing_Demo_Part
Select the correct part file from open documents or using the “Browse..” button to select closed files
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11. SolidWorks: Model View Options
Display hidden lines for orthographic views
Choose base view (usually front view)
Select "Use custom scale" and choose appropriate scale (1:2 for this demo)
Place View by left clicking correct location
Place corresponding views by moving the mouse cursor in the desired direction
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12. SolidWorks: Extracted Views
Insert base view by left clicking once at the correct location
Place projected views by left clicking in the appropriate directions and spacing
Press “Esc” when finished
SolidWorks will automatically be ready to place projected views originating from the base view
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13. SolidWorks: Changing Options
The size of all the views can be changed by selecting the base view and changing the scale
The isometric view can be selected in order to change it’s display properties to a solid part without edge lines
A scale note can be added using Annotation and A Note
The location of the views can also be adjusted by selecting the views and dragging them to the correct location. Remember that the top and right views must line up with the front view.
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14. SolidWorks: Circular Features
The current version of SolidWorks adds Center Marks automatically . If additional Center Marks are required, they can be added using the Center Mark option
Centerlines must be added to define circular features in Orthographic views by sequentially clicking on the vertical hidden lines defining the holes.
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15. Sometimes SolidWorks does not do Centerlines very well!
Click on Centerline
Left click on blue square and pull it down
Adjust blue square up release
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16. SolidWorks: Title Block
Finished Drawing
Right click ON Sheet Format1 (or anywhere on the drawing) and select “Edit Sheet Format”
Right click and select Edit Sheet or left click on icon in upper right screen to restore the drawing
Double click item to edit Title Block Text
Click on the RED X to accept the text and hit Esc key. Complete all blocks.
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17. Save the Extracted Part Drawing for use within the following Dimensioning Demo
If the student has successfully completed the Extracting Demo, use File Save As and name the file:
My_Dimensioning_Demo_Drawing
If the Extraction Demo drawing is incomplete, a completed version is available within the Dimensioning Demo on the SW_08 page on the EEIC website. (Dimensioning_Demo_Drawing.SLDDRW).
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18. Extracting Drawings Wrap Up
Before next class, you will read about dimensioning in detail.
Take SolidWorks 8 Quiz
Extracted Views
Part file to drawing file
Detailed Features
Aligned
Hidden
Circular
Title Block
Author
Units
Scale
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19. In-Class Assignment
Note that the current version of SolidWorks does most, but sometimes not all Center Marks, so check all orthographics for required marks !
Open this part file and use it to extract 2D drawings. Add all necessary formatting.
(Hint: Centermarks and Centerlines), but do not dimension drawing … later on in SW-08!
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20. End of Presentation
The following slide provides an alternative method for retrieving the correct OSU drawing template. The recommended method is to download the Drawing_Template.SLDDRW from the SolidWorks-7 EEIC website page as illustrated on slide 6.
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21. SolidWorks: OSU Title Block
The OSU Title Block is already loaded on the First Year Engineering Computers and is the same as what is in the EEIC Templates folder on the course drive
To locate uncheck the “Only show standard formats” box and scroll to the bottom of the list
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