Creo Parametric Modeling with Augmented Reality

CHAPTER 5Introduction to Drawing

5.1 Introduction

A drawing, or a technical drawing or an engineering drawing, is ultimately a communication tool that contains a rendered to a scale plan with detailed and precise dimensions as well as geometry shape of the manufactured product. In this chapter, we will start with the development of a basic drawing format that we will use throughout the drawing development.

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

• Format development
• Generate orthogonal views
• Add dimensional and text annotations
• Datum axes and tolerances

Note: This chapter shows how to generate drawings for parts. Assembly drawings with bill of materials and balloons will be discussed in the future.

5.1.1 Drawing Format/Template

When you work for an engineering firm as a design engineer, usually the firm provides their drawing template to place your modeled parts on. However, we will be generating our own format for this book and using it as a template. Per American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) standards Y14.1‐14.5 as shown in Figure 5.1, we will be generating a drawing format with a title block and revision block, and we will discuss the geometric dimensioning and tolerancing in future chapters.

• Start Creo Parametric (if it is not already running) ➔ New ➔ Format (Figure 5.2) ➔ Change “frm0001” to “MyFormat” ➔ Click OK.

FIGURE 5.1 Bearing 231 Drawing

FIGURE 5.2