Multiple parts in drawing

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry if this is a duplicate post, but I have a question concerning making drawings. I am in the process of creating a free flight model airplane. I have modeled it in 3D and want to create a drawing to print that I can use to build it. Typically this would include things like 3 view of a body, top view of the wing, side views of wing ribs for templates, etc. 

I could generate a drawing that showes each of these, then save them all to my computer and combine them in 2d cad program, but I was wondering if there is a way to do this inside of Fusion. 

To sum up, I'm looking to put multiple assemblies/components on one sheet with independent views and potentially scalings. Is that possible?

[Phil.E · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Welcome to the Fusion 360 forum.

Sounds like a fun project. At this time, only one component or assembly is allowed per drawing sheet. This is a popular request and on the roadmap, but I don't know the ETA for it.

Here is the Idea Station request for it, you can add your vote! (not sure why it only has 3 votes, but maybe because it's hard to find with that title)

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/ideastation-request-a-feature-or/separate-base-and-projected-views-of-...

Thanks,

[krithika.sundararajan · Accepted solution]

Hi rpangrazio,

As Phil has explained, this is not currently doable. This capability is now targeted for the upcoming update on June 22. 🙂

Please reach out to us if you have any further questions.

Thanks,

Krithika

[Anonymous]

Is this feature implemented yet? 

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@krithika.sundararajan wrote:

Hi @Anonymous,

As Phil has explained, this is not currently doable. This capability is now targeted for the upcoming update on June 22. 🙂

Please reach out to us if you have any further questions.

Thanks,

Krithika

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[Anonymous]

I won’t speak for the autodesk team as I am not an employee, but I was able to do it after the June 22 update. Pretty easily

[Anonymous]

Can you tell me how? I can't figure out how to do it.

[Anonymous]

So you create a drawing like you normally would. See step 1. Select the first part and then select create drawing(Step 2). And place the part on the drawing. Next go back to your model and select the second part and again select create drawing. This time in the "Drawing" drop down you should see the sheet you just made. Note the text id'ing each picture is below the picture, there appears to be a large white space between the picture and the caption. Sorry about that. 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for sahring, that looks easy indeed. The reason i didn't find it: I was working with designs which are not together already in an assembly.  

Normally I start a drawing from the data panel: select a design > right click > create new drawing from design.  from there there was no way i could get another design in the drawing or on a new tab of the drawing. 

So the workaround is: make sure to all drawings you want to combine are in 1 assembly. I wonder if anyone knows if there is a way to get multiple design from within one project in a singel drawing. 

[Anonymous]

I’ve never tried that. So I can’t really say if there is a way or not.

As a work around, if the different assemblies are truly separate entities, i.e the logically don’t fit together into a larger assembly, you could create a fictional assembly with your separate assemblies just sort of hanging out. Just create a new design and insert each of your designs into it and keep them linked. And before you print your drawings make sure you update your fictional assembly to have the latest of all your separate designs. It’s kinda kludgy but it would work.

[andrew.de.leon]

Hi @Anonymous,

Unfortunately there is no way to create a drawing containing multiple designs. Its something the drawings team has considered, but it has not been prioritised. So at this stage, building an assembly containing all of the individual components (as mentioned by @Anonymous) is the only solution.

Just curious, how often do you need to create a drawing containing multiple designs? And what kind of details would you add to each sheet's title block, and what bill of materials expectations do you have for this kind of drawing?

And just a quick tip, rather then switching back and forth between the drawing and design, if you place a drawing view using a new reference of the model (1 for each component), you can then use the 'Suppress all except' option within the Drawing browser to suppress all components except the selected component. And as of last week's release, a template with 'Component' placeholder views may also help.

Thanks,

Andrew

MacBook Pro (15-inch 2017), macOS High Sierra (10.13), in Sydney Australia

[Anonymous]

Hy Andrew,

Thanks for taking this up. I must admit that it doesn't happen a lot that I need to do make combined drawings of completely different designs. The need for this comes up partly due to my workflow: I receive step files and make new parts to fit them. And also: I am used to other (old fashioned) cad programs; making components one by one an assembling them later. With the knowledge I have now i can just my workflow to make drawings more efficient.

In the particular case where I came up with this question I designed two completely different, unrelated small products, which both need to go to the same supplier so I tried to get both drawings in one file to send to the supplier. A task I can also do later on, combining them in a PDF editor, but which I tried to do in Fusion, adding an extra sheet to a drawing.

Here the sheet's title block would contain the name of the design, the sheet's BOM would be absent because every sheet would cover just 1 product. 

On a sidenote, off-topic here and maybe worth a separate topic: both products are aluminium extrusions and these drawings are for the cutting and milling afterwards. I tried to make a table to list all steps in this post-processing. Is there a way to make a custom table, connecting to the title block?

[Anonymous]

Thanks to the dev team for implementing it. Thanks to you all to explain how 🙂

[Mischief_Machine]

I'm surprised this isn't done yet in fusion 360. 

I combine multiple parts almost weekly in Solid Edge. 

What is the use? 

Weldments, i will have one design imported before it is machined,

First page has a parts list and ISO view of the weldment, 

Second page will have all of the weldment callouts

Third page will have the second weldment assembly showing all of the machining. 

Depending upon the complexity of the weldment i sometimes do different assemblies. 

What if i designed a weldment to hold the weldment secure during machining? now the manufacturing support part has to have its own print. ( not a bad thing there really but if its a one off weldment, less is better ) 

Also, for assembly prints, i sometimes put other assemblies into the exploded view or custom views to give the assembler using the drawings a better reference, or perhaps a particular setup measurement or something important to assembly or setup of the machine. 

Or, say i have a part family all related to one master blank part, or what about a casting. What if i wanted to put all of the different parts in the part family in the same document? or if only a cosmetic difference creates a different part but the base part is the same, and i use part copy (derived design). but i cant import the derived design into the master part print for ease of document management. I have to create a useless assembly document to create a true master print. 

[ClintBrown3D]

Hi @Mischief_Machine 

Thanks for sharing your workflow above. It's always great to get real-world examples of how customers use (and want to use) our software. This feature request is on our roadmap (see the public roadmap here).

Every customer request that we get, from meetings, emails, forum posts etc. gets collected and categorised in our feature request database. This information is used to prioritise the features that we build next. I've added your request to our database.

I'd love to understand how you (& others on this thread) are using 2D drawings in Fusion. If you're up for it, here is a link to my calendar, please book a 30-minute Zoom session with me. I'd be happy to answer any questions you have about our drawings package, and I can even show you some of the new tools that are coming soon (note times are in 24:00 format so 03:00 is 3am, 15:00 is 3pm).