Drawing: showing additional bodies/components only in an iso view

[chris.morrison3C22V]

I’m struggling to find a way to show a body/component on one of the drawing views but not on the others. Our products are valves that get installed into pipelines, and we need to include a flow arrow to indicate to the customer what direction the flow in the pipeline would be in relation to the valve assembly. I don’t want the flow arrow on all of the views, only the main view or the isometric view. Is there a good way to do that?

All I could figure out was to draw the flow arrow in on the border, and then try to line it up with the view it corresponds to. You can see that in the drawing below. 

I'd also like to show a smaller scale version of the iso view shown below in a corner of the drawing to indicate the orientation of the item in the piping and the direction of the fluid flow. So I've added in small piping segments into and out of the valve, as well as a flow arrow. But those shouldn't show up on the primary dimensioned views in the drawing. 

[ClintBrown3D · Accepted solution]

Hi @chris.morrison3C22V 

Create a new Base view and choose a new reference. You can set the view direction under "Orientation"

In this new reference, you can show the flow arrow.

Hope this helps.

[chris.morrison3C22V · Accepted solution]

That worked great! Thank you for the help.

Often our customers ask for a flow arrow tied directly to one of the views, like I have highlighted in yellow below. I've found that I can add a sketch to the drawing and draw the flow arrow, but that's a bit tedious. Can you think of any other way to do that? I was considering inserting it as an image but the quality is pretty bad when I do that.

[ClintBrown3D]

Hi @chris.morrison3C22V 

Glad the first part worked. As you have now created the sketch, you can copy and paste it between drawings or sheets, so should be very easy to re-use.

[chris.morrison3C22V]

That works too - I didn't know we could copy the Sketch between drawings. 

Thanks so much for your help, I'm trying to determine if Fusion 360 will meet our needs and it really looks like it does. A question regarding weights came up from one of the other engineers so I'll post that shortly if I can't find a solution via the search function.