FUSION 360 - AUTOMATE DRAWING- Folded model and Flat pattern

[samuellmagda]

I have a problem. I want to create folded drawings using Automate Drawing. In the Flat Pattern section, there is an option to add a folded model isometric view to the drawing. When I check this box, it generates a flat pattern isometric view instead of the folded model. I’ve attached a screenshot of the checked option and the result it generates. Can you help me with this? What’s causing the problem?

[kacper.suchomski]

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@samuellmagda wrote:

I have a problem. I want to create folded drawings using Automate Drawing. In the Flat Pattern section, there is an option to add a folded model isometric view to the drawing. When I check this box, it generates a flat pattern isometric view instead of the folded model. I’ve attached a screenshot of the checked option and the result it generates. Can you help me with this? What’s causing the problem?

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Sorry, I don't understand your question.

What did you expect from the flat pattern feature?

[Closed-Loop-Bot]

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We're investigating the issue, and you can reference ticket FUS-257220 when communicating with Autodesk to find out more. Once the status of this will change, there will be a follow-up forum post made.

[liang_chen]

Thanks for sharing the feedback.

I can reproduce the issue, and isometric view is added from flat pattern mode, which should be created from folded mode as option settings

It has been reproted to dev team for fixing. DID is FUS-257220.

[samuellmagda]

For the parts I want to bend in Abkant, I need to create bend drawings for them, and I want each sheet to include a flat pattern and an isometric view of the part. In Automation Drawing, under the Flat Pattern section, I try to add an isometric view for the folded model, but it actually shows me the isometric view of the unfolded part, not the folded model. Look at the attached file.

[aleksei_ovsienko]

Insert two base views. One based off of a flat pattern, another based off of the main part (folded). Like so - 

[kacper.suchomski]

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@samuellmagda wrote:

In Automation Drawing, under the Flat Pattern section, I try to add an isometric view for the folded model, but it actually shows me the isometric view of the unfolded part, not the folded model.

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Yes, that's why I don't understand why you expect the effect of a folded part if you define something in the flat pattern section, as you wrote yourself.

[samuellmagda]

Yeah, but if I have 20 components, what am I supposed to do? Sit there and make them all by hand? I’d waste a lot of time that way. With automated drawing, it does it all manually if you set it up to go from the Flat Pattern—Isometric View to the Folded Model. It makes the work a lot easier.

[samuellmagda]

If you go to Automated Drawing and want to create multiple drawings at the same time, in the Flat Pattern section, you should check the option if you want it to generate an isometric view from the Folded model, since the software defaults to an isometric view from the Flat Pattern model, which doesn't help me. I want it to be an isometric view from the Component.

[samuellmagda]

I want to create drawings like the ones in this model, and there’s a feature that’s supposed to let me use both the Flat Pattern and the Isometric View from the Folded Model, but, as I said, when I check that feature, it still shows the isometric view from the Flat Pattern. Can you update it so that it uses the isometric model from the Folded Model? Because with many bending drawings, it takes a long time to enter both views manually.

 

[aleksei_ovsienko]

Yeah, I see the problem. Personally I wouldn't trust the Auto Dimension to do an M10 bolt. It never gets it the way I want and it's more effort to check it than to do it a lot of the times.