Automatic drawings - components from assemblies

[Anonymous]

Hello there. Recently I've seen a video about automated drawing templates in Fusion 360 and I've created my own. Everything works fine and dandy up to the point when I need to have a drawing of a component from an assembly. Basically, if my project has any assemblies, my drawing template just can't create the drawing of any component from an assembly. 

I attach the link for drawing template file and hope that some of you will help me in a near future. Thanks in advance!

https://a360.co/329x1Rz

[alessandro.gasso]

Hi, I've just tested your template and it seems it just works fine.

Are you saying that, in your case, it doesn't create the separate component drawings?

Can you check if in the assembly these have been created as components and they are not just bodies?

If this is not the problem, please, share one of the assemblies and let us know what component drawing(s) the template cannot create automatically.

Thanks and regards,

[Anonymous]

I tried to say that my current template doesn't create drawings of components which are in assemblies located in other assemblies. The idea behind the template is to create a one and easy system to create all the drawings for one project. 

I attach a link to a file that has assemblies, and one of them has another assembly in it. In my vision with clicking "create drawing from design" I would have all of the needed assembly drawings and later the components in one drawing file just with many sheets. Oh, the file I've attached is just to give an idea of what I mean. Thanks for your response.

https://a360.co/2R3ul1t

[alessandro.gasso · Accepted solution]

Sorry for the misunderstanding and thanks for the clarification.

Unfortunately, at this time, this works just with the "first level" components. That is, Assembly 1, 2 and 3 in your example.

We are working for improving this functionality, but, at the moment, I cannot provide a time frame for this.

Regards,

[Anonymous]

Understandable, have a great day. 

[mhag33tg2]

I seem to have a similar problem, or else a misunderstanding about the system capabilities.   I now have several designs that have multiple levels of assemblies.  The components (i.e. single pieces) are within the various assemblies. The top level  assembly mostly has assemblies but also some "components".   The smaller assemblies lower in the tree tend to contain most of the components.  This is pretty normal (and essential) structuring when making complicated things.    I am now trying to generate the drawings of each assembly and of every component within the assemblies.   Are you saying this is not possible as a multi sheet document?    In particular, does this mean that when creating the drawings that the drop down selection:  "Sheet creation - Structure  = All Level"  does not actually mean what it implies and does not give you all levels down to the components? 

If that is the case what are people doing to get ALL the drawings?

In an earlier (first) project when I was newer to Fusion, I struggled with that process and to generate all my subcomponent drawings as well as the assembly drawings I had to work through a very frustrating and laborious process of creating numerous single sheet drawings, one for each assembly and for each component.   And that further entails much work if there are model updates, and when generating PDF's.   At the time I thought I was just lacking skill and that was a smaller project and I just ground my way through it, this time I really want/need ALL the drawings to generate more automatically.

If Fusion is indeed truly lacking this needed functionality, has there been any updates/progress since the last advice? 

[g-andresen]

Hi,

take a look at the Roadmap

günther

[mhag33tg2]

Thanks for the link to the road map.  It is not clear to me from that if this component-non-auto-drawing issue will be addressed in 2021.   After a few tests it now looks like Fusion is only capable of auto generating multi drawing sheets for anything that is an assembly, but not any non-assembly components.    If Contents is set to = "Full Assembly" and Structure = "All levels" is selected it will create drawings for all Assys that go deep into the structure it seems.  But it will not do the final components.  That "Full Assembly and All levels" choice now appears misleading.    In contrast, if Structure is set to = "First level" then it seems to create drawings for only the first Assembly level below the top assembly level and that outcome aligns with the choice as described.

This is a major problem, at least for me, that I need to resolve soon.     Is there a way to find out the best work arounds being used by others?  One dodgy workaround I can think of could be to just trick Fusion into drawing components by making every component into an assembly; for example, by attaching some small inconsequential component below each component, perhaps an empty component?  But this could backfire when trying to handle BOM's, creating more work and mess.  I am not game to experiment with that, but maybe someone else already has and can advise.

Another related topic I noticed in the road map under title block was "Auto populate more attributes".   This is a related concern I also recently discovered while attempting to create drawings.  Of particular concern is the component description not coming from the browser into the title block - so in effect every sheet in the drawing ends up with  the same title, ie. the main Assy (Title 1).   Improving this attribute transfer seems to be much more important than transferring physical material or weight, but it is not clear if component descriptions will be made to come into title blocks.  Is this being addressed in 2021 too?

Also for me it is confusing to refer to the non-transferable information as "attributes" or "custom attributes".   To me that information is just "fields" or even just "place holders" within a drawing, not attributes of the model.