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Fundamentals
Creating Drawings

A. General Drawing Creation Steps

Start with the Start Drawing

Enter the name of the drawing model (part, assembly, instance name)

Place a view (or several) of the model. Use a named view to place the main
view, then projected views (typically) for the other views.

Set the display mode of the drawing views using "view", "disp mode", "view
disp". (Don’t rely on the environment setting for hidden line calculations.)

Add the appropriate format

Generate the drawing simultaneously with the part design. Build a few
features, set up views and show dimensions, redefine feature scheme so that
all required dimensions come from the part model, add a few more features,
and so on... Open two windows - one for the part and one for the drawing.

If the drawing is started after the part is complete (or nearly complete)

Show all the dimensions.

Use the clean dims option to make the dimensions as legible as possible.

You can also show dimensions by feature, selecting by number and step
through the features, repositioning, switching views, flipping arrows etc. as
needed.

Add symbols and notes as needed

Add text to tables as needed.

Add text to dimensions as needed.

B. Drawing Organization
Driven Dimensions should be layered and named DRIVEN DIMS.

When all views have been created, add another general view in any available
space on the drawing and orient the view to be ISOMETRIC. This is your

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extra dimension view. You will use the view to hold all extra dimensions. See
following figure:

When an extra dimension is encountered (a dimension used to create the

feature but not needed in the drawing), the dimension should be moved to the
extra dimensions view which is the repository for extra dimensions. The
dimension can be moved using the "Switch View" command.

When all the dimensions have been properly located, the extra dimensions
view can be erased (NOT deleted).

NOTE: When a view is erased, it is only blanked and can be resumed at any
time. When a view is deleted, it can not be resumed and must be recreated if
needed.

If a dimension is needed that was placed onto the extra dims view, resume the
view and move the dimension from the extra dims view to the desired view
using the "Switch View" command.

C. Miscellaneous Tips

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The default views change with Environment selection, so be sure to use

named views ISOMETRIC or TRIMETRIC.

Always include an isometric view if the project drawing standards allow it.

For very complicated drawings of large assemblies you can speed up drawing
repaint by using Erase View to blank views not currently being used. DON'T
forget about these views or you'll have a 10Mb drawing and won't know why.

The use of family tables will allow a drawing to be rapidly generated by

replacing a family instance of the model in the drawing with another family
instance.

You can show multiple sheets of a multi-sheet drawing using the "new"
window function. Use CHANGE WINDOW to switch from sheet to sheet.
You can use this function to have look at different areas of the same sheet
without zooming in and out. It is also useful for switching views from one
sheet to another.

Cosmetic thread features may not display hidden in a drawing, but they will
plot out as hidden.

Dimensions and Geometric tolerances (or surface finishes) should be created

in the model and displayed in the drawing.

ASSY BOM information can be reported in tabular format (automatically)

using Pro/Report functionality (repeat region tables). It also works for family
table parts on assemblies. The contents can also be written to an ASCII text
file using table, save/retrieve, store text.

Main Index

March 3, 1997

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