autodesk how to flatten a 3d drawing

By Marking Lancaster, Synergis Engineering Design Solutions

Accept you lot e'er contacted a vendor requesting a 3D model of their product and you only received a second drawing of information technology? I will even bet the drawing you received had express amount of data on it as well. So what steps did yous have to catechumen their 2D cartoon over to 3D?

Granted there are a few workflows out there to take 2d geometry and make a 3D model from it, only with the release of Inventor 2016, it just got easier. For example, let'due south say you only accept access to a second cartoon file of a stainless steel barbed connector from McMASTER-CARR

First allow'southward start out by creating a new part in Inventor 2016. For my configuration, no new sketch is created when I start making a role.

• Adjacent, select Import located under the 3D Model/Create ribbon section

• Navigate to and select (open up) my 2d cartoon
  • At this point the drawing yous're importing should be placed somewhere in the active Inventor projection area.
• Select on of the work planes to place the drawing
• Select the point (origin or 0,0) where the drawing will be inserted.
  • This point will lucifer the (0,0) location on the cartoon
• Accept the bulletin about the file non being saved and/or nigh the associated underlay that's existence created.

• The drawing should at present appear on the work plane you selected earlier

• At this point the drawing may exist inserted at the incorrect orientation and/or incorrect calibration.
  • For the scaling aspect, I will cover that presently.
• To reorient (if needed), right mouse click on the drawing in the browser and select Interpret. From in that location I can use the rotate triad method and turn my drawing xc degrees.

• Create a 2d sketch on the aforementioned work plane that was used when importing the cartoon.

• Now we demand to start projecting the drawing geometry that will brand up our sketch. Select the driblet downwards under Projection Geometry and option Project DWG Geometry

• Since I planned on making a revolved extrusion of this part, I will only project a certain amount of the 2D geometry. I'1000 as well projecting the ends of the connector equally construction lines in society to determine my axis of rotation.

• Adjacent I will terminate upward my sketch by creating the missing geometry that will class the revolved extrusion.

• Now let's circumduct it and save the part file.

• If I bank check the overall length of my revolved extrusion, you will notice the scale of the imported drawing is non at a 1 to 1 calibration. In order to change the drawing scale I volition demand to open the second drawing file direct in one of the AutoCAD platforms.

Although I'thousand using AutoCAD 2016, the drawing can exist modified in any version of AutoCAD as long equally it's able to open it.

• I'll scale the drawing based on the origin (0,0) point and the other thing I volition do is movement the unabridged drawing and so one of the connector ends is setting at the drawing origin indicate.

• Salvage the drawing and exit AutoCAD.
• Now when I return back to Inventor, a red lightning commodities is present next to the (imported) cartoon in the browser and the update icon is lit.

• One time I perform the update, the model is scaled downwards based on the updated drawing and the end of the part relocated and aligns with the origin airplane/indicate.

• After a couple of boosted modeling steps my barb connector is now completed.

• At this point I could turn the visibility of the drawing off and/or suppress (or suspension) the link to the (imported) cartoon.

There yous have it, a workflow that allows you lot to have 2D geometry and a 3D part from it. Until side by side time…

Mark 50.

About the Author

Marking Lancaster is a Production Support Specialist with the Synergis Applied science Design Solutions Helpdesk team working to support customers to create data-rich designs and efficient workflows. Marker'southward almost previous feel is as the CAD Design Manager of Drapery Corporation, one of our long time customers. In that position, he was responsible for workstation optimization and design management, established compatible standards for the local and global offices, and developed global systems to control and manage their design data.

This commodity was originally published on the Synergis Engineering Pattern Solutions blog and is re-published here with kind permission.

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Source: https://www.dlt.com/blog/2015/07/01/2d-flat-geometry-3d-autocad

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