- [Instructor] Welcome to another tip and trick for AutoCAD.
We're going to take a look at how we can utilize
our drafting standards in AutoCAD
when we're working with 3D objects.
That allows us to set up different types of views
like plan views, sectional views, detail views, and so on
using specific drafting standards
that you can specify in AutoCAD.
We've got a drawing for you to use.
It's called 267 DRAFTING,
and then Drafting Standards.DWG.
As usual, you can download it from the library
to follow along with this particular tips and tricks video.
Now, you'll notice when you open it up
and you're in the model tab
that we're in the Southwest
isometric view using the conceptual visual style,
that's all over here. There's Southwest isometric,
like so, set it to parallel as well.
It just makes life a bit easier shown the straight edges.
And also with the visual style,
just make sure that you're using conceptual here like so.
There's conceptual there like that.
Now you can also set your view obviously on the view cube
if you wish,
the Southwest isometric is that little corner of
the view cube there.
Now you'll notice as well
we're in the drafting and annotation 2D workspace in this
particular case. Now don't worry about that too much.
Don't forget,
you can also set drafting and annotation down here on the
status bar, if you wish as well,
that will also set it up there too.
It doesn't matter which workspace you're in for this,
but ideally if you go to drafting an annotation in this
particular tips and tricks video,
it just means that all the icons are in the same place as
the ones that I'm using in the video.
So on the home tab on the ribbon,
we're going to go over to this view panel here,
and we're going to click on this little arrow just there.
That allows us to set up our drafting standards for new
drawing views.
So we can use first angle projection or third angle
projection.
We can also set our shading preview quality of thread style,
both inside partial section
and also you'll notice there we've got our thread edges as
well, how you want them to be displayed
in your AutoCAD drawings.
Well, okay, that now that's done.
That's our standard set.
Also as well,
If I click on the little view fly out here,
I can set my section style as well.
So if I'm creating a sectional view, there it is there.
I can set that up and modify and create new ones.
And also if I want any details like so,
I can set up a style for that as well.
All of these features are really useful when you want to
develop quick views of 3D objects in yours autoCAD drawings.
Now, what we're going to do
is we're going to jump across now to
the layout tab here. I've got an ISO A3
landscape layout tab, no view ports needed.
Now you'll notice I'm on the 3D objects
current layer in the layers panel as welL there.
Now you can bring in views from the model space of 3D
objects in AutoCAD.
You can also bring in views of 3D objects from Autodesk
inventor as well. I'm using AutoCAD obviously.
So I'm going to go from model space in AutoCAD.
There's the inventor option right there.
Now, as soon as I do this,
it allows me to start working with different views.
So I've got a front view there. So that's my front view.
You'll notice it there in the orientation panel on the
ribbon, I can specify which view I want to show.
So I'm going to put my base view, the front view there,
it creates its own view port straight away.
I click on exit.
There's my plan view, the top view,
and notice it's projecting
these exactly based on the 3D model.
And then as I come down here,
I've got a nice isometric view as well,
and I just press enter to finish.
Now I've got now four view ports, all set up.
Can you see the edges of the view ports there,
but they're called drawing views.
And can you see that it's using a standard scale?
So if I select that view, I can now change the scale.
I might want say once 10 gets a bit smaller,
I might want to make it a bit bigger.
Once five gets a bit bigger,
notice it updates all of them though.
Be careful of that one.
So I'll set them all back to one to eight and the reason it
does that is it updates them accordingly for me
based on the size of the sheet and the size of the objects,
it scales it all for me automatically,
which is really rather useful.
Now what I can also do is I can create other views.
So there's a section view. Let's go for a full section view,
like so,
so I want a section, I'm going to click here
one
and then two
that's through the hole in the middle
like that.
And there's my section view.
So I can now just bring that across a little bit,
click there, hit exit.
And there's my section AA picks that up AA there.
And one to eight again, like, so if I want a detailed view,
I can do the same thing again as well, really useful.
I can select this, like so,
and make sure you select one of the drafting views that
you've created. Let's go for a detail view.
I'll go for a circular one.
So I'll pick, let's say that corner there,
drag it out a little bit, like so,
specify location of the detail view.
Let's pop that there
and I'll just hit exit, like so,
and that's over here, like so, there's my view there
and I can scale that accordingly.
Now there's not much in that view obviously at the moment.
So what I can do there is I can actually delete that if I
want to, as soon as I delete it,
the bubble disappears.
Like so for the detail view.
Obviously when you're creating detail views,
you want to get a detail that actually works.
That corner wasn't the best detail view
that I could have selected,
but you can see how these drafting views appear really
quickly and easily in your layout tab.
Now the benefit you've got as well as you can select that,
like so,
and there's nothing to stop you
changing anything here as well.
You've got hidden lines as well.
You'll notice this can all be updated.
See the hidden lines from parents standard scale from parent
view type projected. So I can edit any of this.
I can delete it if I want to, like so, it doesn't stop me.
And as I can go here and I can now create a projected view
like so, and can you see, as I move around,
it creates those projections depending on the movement of
the mouse? It's really quick and easy to use.
And I can only suggest that you get into this more and play
around with it and use it more in autoCAD,
especially when you're working in 3D modeling
and you've got a 3D object that you need to create a
sectional view, an isometric view, a plan view, and so on.
It's quick and easy
and also the view ports are created automatically and it's
all scaled up automatically for you as well.