Drawing dimensions not same as Modeled dimensions

[Anonymous]

I just converted my first model to a drawing and have found my drawing dimensions are not the same as my modeled dimensions. how can I fix this?

[James.Youmatz]

Hi @Anonymous,

Welcome to the Fusion 360 Community!

Hmm, the first thing that comes to mind is either tolerance or alignment of those lines. Just from the picture it is hard to tell how those dimensions were measured. Do you mind sharing the Fusion design with me so I can test a few things out. 

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

James,

Thanks for your reply.  what is the best way to share to you.  looked over the share link but not sure best way

[James.Youmatz]

Hi @Anonymous,

Feel free to just go to the file menu and select Share Public Link. Ensure you have the download option enabled.

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

James,

Hope I did this right? http://a360.co/2CdFN2m

Please forgive my jumbled component history.  Just learning how to assemble and forgetting to make my changes at the component file and in in the assembly.  Anyway I created drawing from the component hood hinge V2

Regards Darren

[James.Youmatz]

Hi @Anonymous,

Just to check, what is your linear precision set to? I noticed my dimension became correct after turning down the precision to two decimal places. To double check myself I turned on trailing zeros as well.

[Anonymous]

James,

I think I know where my problem lies.  When I try to make a drawing of just one component it captures it in the orientation it is positioned.  How do I capture it or set it the origin of the way it was modeled?

[g-andresen]

Hi Darren,

you are right.

The magic word is "named view".

günther

[Anonymous]

@James.Youmatz@g-andresen

Named views is part of the solution.  However in the  assembled part I have, I cannot find a way to set the orientation to exactly horizontal as It was modeled as a separate component.  As James' view in above response, his appears to be in the correct orientation as modeled (with zero rotation). How was this done?  Even if I am slightly off trying to get zero rotation, my measurements are not true to the model as it seems linear dimensions can only be taken at 0 or 90 degrees relative to the page and not the part. The further out my rotation is the further out the dimension get skewed from what I want to show,

How do I get my part to show the orientation as modeled (zero rotation)?  do i have to release joints somehow?

Thanks

Darren

[HughesTooling]

Select the face you want as your plan view then use Look At to align the view and create your named view. If it does not align along the X axis you need to create a joint origin at the midpoint of the edge then use Look At and select the joint origin and create your named view. There is a big problem if you move the component after creating the named view though as there's no way to realign a named view using Look At.

Here's an example using a joint origin to align the view.

Mark

Edit There is an option to rotate a view in the drawing workspace that might work as well.