From the course: AutoCAD: 3D Modeling for Mechanical Designs

Using drafting standards in AutoCAD - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: 3D Modeling for Mechanical Designs

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Using drafting standards in AutoCAD

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- [Speaker] We're starting a new chapter now where we start thinking about how we set up our drawing views from our 3D models. Now, in the last chapter we did our little project, didn't we? Where we created our metal plate, added the holes, changed it to regions, did a little bit of editing there with fillets and chamfers and so on. So this is the finished metal plate and it's in a new drawing called Metal Plate_FABRICATION.dwg. So we're starting to think about how we fabricate our metal plate and how we communicate that design intent to others so that this metal plate can be put into a drawing with a title block and so on. All set up, nice and neatly so that somebody can perhaps cut it out of a sheet of metal. Now, what we're going to do is have a look at a lot of different settings. Now, I haven't got a title block set up or anything yet. I don't need a title block just yet, 'cause we're looking at all the settings that we're going to work with with our 3D model. Now to do that, just jump down to Layout1. We're currently in the Model tab when you open up the drawing. So if you click on Layout1, there you go. There it is, there. And it's showing it in a Realistic Visual Style. If I double click inside the Viewport, [SW Isometric][Realistic]. If I change that there, I can change the view in the Viewport to Conceptual, and it now matches what's going on in the Model tab. Now, I'm not too worried about the view or the Visual Style at the moment. I'm going to double click outside the Viewport to deactivate it though. The important bit I need to look at is the fact that I've got the blue Layout tab up here on the ribbon. It's a contextual Layout tab that comes up when you're in a Layout tab in your drawing. So I click on the blue Layout tab, and you'll notice I've got lots of different settings available here. I can work with Layouts, Layout Viewports, Create Views, Modify Views, Update the views. It's this one on the end that I want you to look at. And I want you to go to Styles and Standards and just click on the little arrow. So we're going to do a quick overview of what this dialogue box actually means. It's a default for any new drawing views that you create from a 3D object in your DWG file. Now, you can also bring in 3D components and assemblies from Inventor and drop them into AutoCAD, and these Drafting Standards will apply as well. Now, the default for any new drawing views. Now, you're setting up various settings here, and I will cover them in more detail. But you're setting up your Projection type, which is orthographic, either First angle, Third angle. So this is things like your plan view, your section view, your side view, and so on. Do you want it First angle or Third angle Projection? You'll notice the difference there. So First angle, the plan view you'll notice is on the right, and thus the side view is kind of over there on the left. Third angle, it's the opposite way around. You're projecting it the other way. So it's basically to do with the Projection thing, which side you're projecting to and from. The Thread style, you can see is fairly simplistic. You've got this one here, Partial section thread end, like so. Or you can have over here, the Full section thread end. It's up to you which one you want to show there when you're working with different Thread styles. Same here with the plan view. There's a Partial circular thread edge, or a Full circular thread edge. It's basically a style thing and sometimes a standardization thing. It's up to you which one you set up in your drawing. Now, the Shading and the Preview. Shading view quality, if you want it really high quality, you're going to go to 300 DPI. And that means that it will show on the screen as 300 DPI. And if you print it onto a piece of paper, for example, it will also be 300 DPI. The default is 100. It's up to you what you use. The Preview for the Shading there, can be a Bounding box or Shaded. So that's the Preview type. Now, we are just going for Shaded in this case. So if I click on OK now, all those settings are set ready for me to use when I create my views in my 3D drawing. Now, what we're going to do is we're going to just work with a blank sheet. We're not going to worry about a title block, or anything like that in this particular case. But I just want to show you how this all works with all the settings that we've just set up in our Styles and Standards in the Layout tab.

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