assembly drawing suggestions/help

[kwertmanX3F6N]

I am working on improving assembly drawings with student projects. We are building a battle bot and I made an attempt to make a drawing of a bot. My understanding of how assembly drawings work is every single part of the bot is a separate component. When I go to machine the parts I can turn off all the parts except the one that I would like to CAM out. As I was creating my assembly drawing I kept getting multiple components that were acting as one. This makes creating toolpaths for each individual part impossible. It also seemed as though making a copy of a component messed with the ability to individually select components. My main purpose in the drawing is for machining. The graphics are to prove the parts will work together once assembled. I will try to attach the file. Im not sure what file type to use for an assembly. The forum wont accept the STEP file I created. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[TrippyLighting]

If you are teaching your students 3D CAD that maybe we can agree to use the proper terminology. Usually my stomachs starts revolting when someone starts referring to a model as a drawing 😉

Yes, all discrete parts in a design should be components.

To share a design you can either export it as a .f3d file or create a link to it directly from the design in the data panel.

[TheCADWhisperer]

...to expand on @TrippyLighting comments:

An assembly is a collection of components - the components might be individual parts or sub-assemblies of parts.

A part is, well, a part.   3D geometry.  In the CAD world we refer to modeling a part.

A drawing is 2D documentation of the Assembly or the Part - usually intended for printing on a sheet of paper.

If we are "drawing" a part or an assembly, then we are preparing the 2D documentation.

If we are working on 3D assembly or part - we are modeling in CAD.

You can attach your original Fusion file here by -

going to File>Export and save to your local drive

then Reply here and attach the *.f3d file here.

[kwertmanX3F6N]

I think this is a link to use. I'm not sure why but I cant save the f3d file locally to my computer or our network. Hopefully this link works. Considering I just taught board drawing for 13 years I guess I have developed bad habits. Having the resources to teach CAD is a game changer. Unfortunately this forum is my only source for Fusion training. I've had very good experiences from getting info from the CAM forum. If you can make some suggestions I would greatly appreciate it!   

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