Drawing Standart & How Custom It

Each drawing stores styles that control the default appearance of drawing annotations. The Drawing Styles.idw document includes styles corresponding to the ISO standard. The styles were copied to the document when it was created from the ISO template.

In addition to the local document styles, styles from the style library are available in the drawing. The style library can store all the styles your company uses. To reduce document size, there are more styles in the style library than in a drawing.

Review styles available in the Drawing Styles.idw document:

1. Click Manage tab  Styles and Standards panel  Styles Editor  .
   The Style and Standard Editor dialog box displays. In the browser panel on the left, styles sorted by types are listed. In the right panel, details for an item selected in the browser panel are displayed.
2. To review all available styles, select All Styles from the Filter list .
   In the browser, the Standard list displays all standards available in the style library. The Default Standard (ISO) is marked bold to indicate the standard is currently active in the drawing.
   The active standard defines a set of annotation styles used in the drawing. In addition, it contains settings for views, text, hatches, and object defaults.
3. To create a custom Standard style, select Default Standard (ISO), and click New…
4. In the New Local Style dialog box, in Name, enter Modified Standard (ISO), and click OK.
   A new standard based on the Default Standard (ISO) is added to browser under the Standard node.
5. To activate the custom standard, right-click the Modified Standard (ISO), and select Active.
6. Click the Dimension node in the browser. Then review a list of available dimension styles in the Dimension Style panel.
   
   Notice that:
   

   • Location of styles stored in the drawing is Both, and location of styles stored in the style library is Library.
   • Styles used in the drawing display Yes in the In Use column.
   • The Changes column displays No for all styles.
7. Select Local Styles from the Filter list. Then review dimension styles stored in the drawing file.
   

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Types of Drawing Annotations

General Dimensions

You can create general dimensions in orthographic or isometric views. The geometry you select determines the dimension type and the options available in the context menu.

You can override the dimension text, which does not affect the model geometry.

You can change the dimension precision and tolerance, edit the leader and arrowheads, or modify the content of dimension text.

Baseline Dimensions and Baseline Dimension Sets

Creates multiple dimensions that display the orthogonal distance between the origin (base line) and selected edges or points. The first edge or point selected is the origin geometry. You can create individual dimensions or a dimension set.

Ordinate Dimensions and Ordinate Dimension Set

Creates multiple ordinate dimensions in a single process. Ordinate dimensions automatically align as you place them. If dimension text overlaps, you can modify the dimension position or dimension style. You can create individual dimensions or a dimension set.

Retrieve Dimensions

Displays all model dimensions, or only dimensions related to selected parts or features. You select the dimensions to maintain in the drawing view.

Only model dimensions parallel to the view plane are available.

Model dimensions can be modified to manipulate the part file.

Center Marks

Center marks are added to the selected arc or circle. Center mark extension lines are automatically sized to fit the geometry.

Center marks can be added individually or using the automated centerlines command.

Centerlines

Creates centerlines for selected edges, at the midpoint for lines, or at the center point of arcs or circles. Creates a circular centerline when features form a circular pattern.

Autodesk Inventor supports three types of centerlines: bisector, centered pattern, and axial.

Hole/Thread Notes

Hole or thread notes display the information from hole, thread, and cylindrical cut extrusion features on a model. The style of the hole note varies depending on the type of feature selected.

Chamfer Notes

Chamfer notes contain distance and angle measurements for selected model edges or sketched lines.

You can attach chamfer notes to angled edges in views and sketches. A chamfer edge and reference edge from different bodies, models, or sketches, must be part of the same view.

Symbols

Various types of symbols are available: surface texture, welding, feature control frame, feature identifier, datum target, and datum identifier symbols. Symbols are created with or without a leader.

User-defined or sketched symbols are defined in the Drawing Resources and are placed like standard symbols. They are used to define custom symbols that are not available in Autodesk Inventor.

Bend Notes

A bend not adds fabricating information to sheet metal bend, contour roll, and cosmetic centerlines. Bend notes can be added to flat pattern views of sheet metal parts.

A bend note is associated with the selected bend centerline. The default placement of the bend note is above the selected bend centerline. It constrains the bend text to the midpoint of the centerline and offsets by the Origin Offset value from the Dimension Style.

Punch Notes

A punch note includes data related to the punch feature: for example the punch ID, angle, direction, depth, quantity note, and so on.

Punch notes can be added to flat pattern views of sheet metal parts.

Caterpillars

Weld caterpillars are used to denote weld features in 2D views. You can add weld caterpillars manually using the Caterpillar command. Add them automatically from weld features using Get Model Annotations > Get Weld Annotations on the context menu.

End Fills

End fills are used to represent the filled region indicating the end of a weld bead. You can add them manually using the End Fill command or automatically from weldment models using Get Model Annotations > Get Weld Annotations.

Change end fill appearance through object properties.

Balloons

Balloons are annotation tags that identify items listed in a parts list. Balloons can be placed individually or automatically for all components in a drawing view. You can add balloons to a custom part after it is added to the parts list.

The balloon shape and value can be overridden using Edit Balloon on the context menu. You can combine balloons to use a single leader using the attach balloon options on the context menu.

Parts lists

Parts lists display data saved in the assembly bill of materials. The parts list can be modified to include different columns or overridden values. The bill of material data can be modified from the drawing file or the assembly file.

Custom parts can be added to the parts list to include items that are not modeled such as paint or grease.

Tables

You can create a general, configuration, or bend table.

A general table can have a default number of rows and columns, or you can customize its size. The general table can reference external data from .xls, .xlsx, or .csv files, or you can enter any other type of data you need.

In drawings of iParts and iAssemblies, configuration table rows represent the members of the factory. You can specify the columns to include in the configuration table, such as exclusion status and values that are different among members.

A bend table is created if a sheet metal part is the source of the table. Bend tables contain bend information such as angle and radius.

Hole Tables

Hole tables show the size and location of the hole features in a model. When a hole table is added, each individual hole receives a hole tag and a corresponding row is added to the table.

You can also add center marks, punch features, and cylindrical cut extrusion to a hole table by editing the table.

Revision Tables and Tags

Revision tables include information about design changes. Revision tables can be created for the entire drawing file or a single sheet.

A revision tag marks an object changed by design revisions. The default revision level for the tag is the latest revision in the table. The revision level of the tag can be changed using the context menu.

Text or Leader Text

Use Text to add general notes to a drawing. General notes are not attached to any view, symbol, or other object in the drawing.

Use Leader Text to add notes to objects in a drawing. If you attach the leader line to geometry in a view, the note is moved or deleted when the view is moved or deleted.

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Drawing View Operations

Break

An operation that reduces the size of a model by removing or “breaking” irrelevant portions. Create a break in a view if the component view exceeds the length of the drawing, or contains large areas of nondescript geometry. An example is the center portion of a shaft.

Dimensions that span the break reflect the true length.

Break Out

An operation that removes a defined area of material to expose obscured parts or features in an existing drawing view. The parent view must have an associated sketch that contains the profile defining the break out boundary.

Crop

An operation that provides control over the view boundary in an existing drawing view. The clipping boundary can be a rectangle or circle you create during the command, or a closed profile you select from a sketch.

Slice

An operation that produces a zero-depth section from an existing drawing view. You perform the Slice operation in a selected target view. The slice lines are defined in a sketch associated to a different view.

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Types of Drawing Views

Base View

The first view created in a drawing. The base view is the source for subsequent views and controls the scale and alignment for them.

You can create one or more base views on a drawing sheet.

You select the orientation of the view when you create it. The default orientations are based on the origin in the digital prototype.

Projected View

An orthographic or isometric view that is generated from a base view or other existing view. You can create multiple projected views in a single operation. The position of the cursor relative to the parent view determines the orientation of the projected view.

Projected views inherit the scale and display settings from the parent view. Orthographic projected views keep alignment with the parent view. The active drafting standard defines the first-angle or third-angle projection.

Auxiliary View

A view projected perpendicular to a user-selected line or edge. Use Auxiliary View to document features on inclined faces

The position of the cursor relative to the parent view determines the orientation of the auxiliary view. Auxiliary views inherit the scale and display settings from the parent view.

Section View

A view created by sketching a line that defines a plane used to cut through a part or assembly. You draw the cutting line when you create the view, or select it from a sketch associated to the parent view. The cutting line can be a single straight segment or multiple segments. The cutting line arrowheads on the base view automatically orient to reflect the position of the section view relative to the base view.

The crosshatching, section line, and labels are placed automatically.

Detail View

An enlarged view of a specified portion of another drawing view. By default, the scale of the detail view is double the scale of the parent view, but you can specify any scale. A detail view is created without alignment to its parent view.

Autodesk Inventor labels the detail view and the area it is derived from on its parent view. You can set either a circular or rectangular fence for the detail.

Overlay View

A single view that shows an assembly in multiple positions. Overlays are available for base, projected, and auxiliary views. The overlay view is created on top of the parent view.

Draft View

A view created from a 2D sketch in the drawing file. You can place a draft view and construct a drawing without an associated model. A draft view can provide detail that is missing in a model.

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Make Raster View in Autodesk Inventor Drawing

A new option in the drawing view dialog box creates raster views that do not become precise over time. You control when to make the views precise.

Raster views can help you defer the cost of precise drawing view recompute when you edit a large model. For example, open the drawing document and convert all views to raster. Open the assembly file and edit the model. The drawing document displays the changes without waiting for a full recompute.

A raster view displays in the browser with a diagonal red line through it. Green brackets frame a raster view in the display.

Use the browser context menu to convert an individual view to a precise or raster view. Use the context menu in the display and select Make All Views Precise, or Make All Views Raster to convert multiple views.

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