Drawing
Basic Concepts
- if you are using a lot of stock parts called out in notes, define the stock size in the part and have the note pull the dimension
- split a long BOM and drag the split to display them parallel
- create a default drawing with thin, normal, thick lines and change their settings to test output on your particular printer
Along the Way
- create a detached drawing that loads no references. These can be send to other users without sending the models. They can be resynchronized.
- if there are multiple configurations you can show how many quantities of a part are used in each configuration
Techniques
- create dimension parameters and annotations within the model as you create it. This includes tolerance values, GD&T, text notes. The person creating the feature records it at the point of creation so they do not have to be remembered when the drawing is created (by somebody else?) downstream.
- change the drawing reference without having to recreate the views via File Reference, dbl click file name
- save As with replacements to store a drawing and its model into a new location
- create saved views with the part for consistent application on a drawing.
- large assembly mode can help with drawings too