Using Pro/E Wildfire Lesson 7 Page 1

Creating Detail Drawings

Background:
Detail drawings are the oldest form of drafting, and were used almost exclusively in the days before computers. A detail drawing gives the specifics of how to mold, machine, or otherwise create a part. The drawings usually contain three or more major views, orthogonal to each other, that allow for visualization of the part in three dimensions (though for cylindrical parts, only two views are necessary). The front view (1), which whenever possible contains the majority of the information about the part, is projected and rotated 90o to create the left (2), right, top, and bottom views, and any of these may be projected and rotated another 90o to create a back view. Often, the drawings will also contain close-ups and/or cutaways of the part to show additional detail, known respectively as detailed views (3) and section views. The detail drawing that you are going to create in this lesson is shown to the right. As you can see, this is a detail drawing of the part-3d.prt and logo_attachment you created in the earlier labs. The shell_attachment will not be dealt with in this tutorial for simplicity. Before we begin our drawing, it is important to go over two concepts related to creation of detail drawings in Pro/E: When you create a new detail drawing for a part, Pro/E automatically loads that part into the drawing, and the two are associated. All the dimensions from the parts are available, and you choose to selectively show and hide them in the drawing as needed. Further, as the part is updated, the drawing is updated to show the changes, and vice versa. To help you avoid mistakes, dimensions that are changed in the drawing view will turn white when they change the part, and will return to normal color upon regenerating the part. Like most other drafting programs, Pro/E comes with pre-made templates and formats for drawings, following ANSYS/ANSI standards1. Formats come with all of the border lines and text you would usually see on a production drawing, and include places for the part name, company logo, notes, etc. (4, above) Templates provide more options and power when you need it. We will only briefly touch upon templates in this tutorial, so you may want to spend some time on your own trying out the various templates available.

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Introduced:
Drawing Mode Loading Templates Projecting Views Creating Detail Views Creating Section Views

Assignment: Loading a Part as a Drawing

1) Go to File > New and choose Drawing. Call the drawing whatever you would like, check the Use Default Template check box, and continue. On the next popup, shown to the right, set the default model to your assembly file, choose empty with format, and browse the templates for the c.frm template. 2) When you click ok, you will be taken to drawing mode with a basic template of size C loaded. In the lower right are boxes for part and company information, and in the upper right are boxes for revision information. To bring the assembly into the drawing, click Insert > Drawing Views. When the Menu Manager opens, click done to accept the defaults. When prompted for a center point to place the view, choose somewhere left of center on the page. *before this, they need to get into the assembly file and delete the shell attachment. 3) An orientation box should now open, allowing you to choose one of the saved views from the Viewport for the part. Under Saved Views, choose Front, and click Set. Click ok to continue. Your front view will now be placed in the drawing. The orientation box and corresponding front view are shown to the right. 3) Pro/E has automatically assigned a scale (since you selected all defaults in step 2), so now its necessary to adjust the scale to fit. In general, to edit the properties of a view you must right click and hold the right click. When you do this, a menu will appear with view options. On that menu, choose properties. The view manager will appear. Click View Type, and select

Using Pro/E Wildfire Lesson 7 Page 3 scale. When you select done at the bottom, you are prompted for a new scale. Choose .5, and hit enter. 5) Get out of this menu, and right click again on the view. Uncheck Lock View Movement (note that Lock View Movement applies to all views on a sheet, not just the current one). Center your part if you do not like its placement on the drawing, and reselect Lock View.

Conclusion: See Also:

1: For more information on the ANSYS and ANSI standards for detail drawings, see pages 133 and 208 of Technical Drawing, 12th Ed. by Giesecke et al.