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Creating Drawings from Models

You can create drawings from part and assembly documents.

To generate drawings from part and assembly documents:

  1. In a part or assembly document, click Make Drawing from Part/Assembly on the Standard toolbar and select a template in the Sheet Format/Size dialog box.

    The View Palette opens on the right side of the window.

  2. Click to pin the View Palette.
  3. Drag a view from the View Palette onto the drawing sheet.
  4. In the Drawing View or Projected View PropertyManager, set options such as orientation, display style, scale, etc. then click .
  5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 to add views.

    You can have any drawing views of any models in a given drawing document.

Model Part
Drawing with several views and dimensions inserted


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