May 2018
Beginner
304 pages
7h 18m
English
In this chapter, we’ll turn the Chapter 9 planetary gear set into a sheet of orthographic, scaled drawings. Such documentation is needed for shop fabrication or to prepare drawings suitable for a CNC cutting machine.
Open the gear model. Convert all bodies in the file into components. Although solid bodies can enter the drawing workspace unconverted, they lack full functionality there. Mesh, T-spline, and surface bodies will not enter the drawing workspace at all.
Click the Workspace menu and then select Drawing → From Design. Figure 11-1 shows two ways to do this. If the ...
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