2D drawings Exporting to PDF then using the image for a product manual

2D drawings Exporting to PDF then using the image for a product manual

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2D drawings Exporting to PDF then using the image for a product manual

catfishking105
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Hello everyone i am still quite an NEWB but i have a design question. I have created some sink basins we manufacture in FUSION 360. I need to use this Sink basin in a 2 d drawing that shows the sink basin dimensions As well a nice picture of the sink style. So using Drawing by design i have created a standard layout view of what i wanted. However there are multiple sinks of each style we manufacture. I export the layout with per attached Image as a PDF. I open in Acrobat Pro. I have to remove the dimensions an replace with table references A B C D E F excetera for my final layout within Adobe Indesign. Once the dimensions have been replaced . I do a crop around the target image to exclude the rest of the page you have to EXPORT from fusion. Then i save as a PNG. What i am running into is the quality of the image has reduced in my opinion please see image for reference. I am hoping there is a much shorter path out there to what i am trying to achieve here. Is there some way to convert these images from fusion to other formats then just DXF PDF DWG. Any help would be better than the help i am getting from ADOBE on this matter  would be greatly appreciated. Also it would be great if i Could substitute the dimensions for other alphanumeric symbols to be used in TABLES for Literature instead of having to re edit everything in another program. REMOVE dims and sub with letters for tableREMOVE dims and sub with letters for tablefinal lay out image is still roughfinal lay out image is still roughHow i export from fusionHow i export from fusion

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Hay guys a little update first off the images that i have exported are just fine as a matter of fact the issue i was experiencing with the images being well lets just say less than par was directly related to the software and how it operates. That being said i was able to set my view up so i can check the final quality and it looked good. So i guess i solved my own problem. But i still would like to see if there was any way to within fusion 2D drawing to create the same dimension arrows but with Letters in place of the dimensions. It may go against the grain of Parametric Drawings for all i know. But Never hurts to Ask. 

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You can double-click on the dimensions in the drawing and overtype the value that you want.

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Well would you look at that…. Thank you so painfully obvious but nothing like getting past something no matter how
Small the task.
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