Discover the meticulous process of creating a new view in Fusion Model, a critical step in designing 3D objects. This detailed guide walks through the steps of establishing a new view, adding and adjusting elements, and saving changes for a seamless design process.
Key Insights
- The process begins by selecting a focus for the new view, in this example the backside of a scooter's fork. After zooming and orbiting to the desired perspective, a new view is saved as "Stem View".
- Once the perspective is set, elements can be toggled on or off to better highlight the object of focus. To adjust the scale of the view, Fusion Model offers tools such as "Brake View" for creating brake lines.
- Additional features include real-time dimensioning, allowing for accurate measurements regardless of perspective shifts. The final step involves saving the model to ensure all changes are preserved.
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Before creating our next view, we need to go back to our Fusion Model and do a little setup. So click back on our Fusion Model tab. In this view, you'll notice a Named Views folder.
Go ahead and open it up, and you'll see that we don't really have anything special right now. We have the Top, Front, Right, and Home view, which match up with our ViewCube. For example, if we click the Front view, it takes us to the Front view, which works really good for the wheels and the scooter deck, but not so much our stem because it is drawn at an angle.
We need to create a new view. First, let's go ahead and go to our Home view. Then orbit around, and we're trying to zoom in to the back side of this fork.
So keep orbiting and zooming in right to the back side of this fork. Why are we doing that? That's because these back faces of the fork line up perfectly with the stem and handlebars all the way up. So let's click so that nothing is selected.
We'll notice our view options down at the very bottom. There is a command called Look At. So click that Look At button.
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Now click the back face of the fork one time. Fusion will change the view so that we are now looking directly at the fork and stem. And everything else is on an angle.
From here, let's right-click the Named Views folder and click New Named View. Let's give it a name by clicking on it, and we'll call this Stem View. And click Enter.
With that, it's critical that we click the Save button. That saves our scooter file. Now we can go back to the drawing.
Notice that now that we're in the drawing, we get a warning at the top and maybe even at the bottom. Changes were made to our scooter file. So let's go ahead and click that link.
Click it one time, and now the drawing will be up-to-date. Now we can go ahead and add our new view. We'll click Quick Add down at the bottom of the plus to get a new sheet.
Let's go ahead and rename it. It's called Drawing 2, so we'll double-click and call it Drawing 3. Enter and Finish Properties. And now we want to create a new view on this sheet.
We're going to go ahead and go up to our Drawing tab. Click on Base View. We're going to have a new instance.
Representation is the model. But this time, when we drop down Orientation, we don't see anything different except for Stem View. We can now set this to Stem View.
Look at the big difference there. Let's change our scale now to 1 to 2. Nice and big. Go ahead and click one time to place it and click OK.
Now we can select this view. And on the left, we'll notice that we have some checkboxes. We can uncheck things like uncheck the wheels, uncheck the deck, uncheck the grips.
In fact, we can uncheck everything until all we're left with is our Stem B. So uncheck everything else. There we go. We're left with just Stem B. Now let's go ahead and move that so it's centered a little bit better.
And let's turn on a couple things. Let's turn on Stem A. And you might notice to yourself, well, that's going off the page. Well, no problem.
Fusion has some tools to deal with this. We're going to have this be a Stem View. With this view, we can now go and create some brake lines.
The brake lines are in the Create tab. So click on Brake View. It wants us to pick our drawing view.
So let's click it one time. Now it picked up on the orientation, which is vertical. That's perfect.
So let's go ahead and click a start point. And click an end point right on the top Stem B. Then go ahead and click OK. We've got one brake line.
Now let's do that again. We'll go back to Brake View. We'll click down a little bit lower this time.
We'll click our two brake points a little farther apart this time. And click OK. And isn't that cool? Now the view fits right onto the page.
So let's click and drag and move that over. Now we can add a few dimensions. We'll go to the Dimension tab.
Click Dimension. One thing to note is the dimensions are real time. So let's click this line.
And you can see it's dimensioning the full 400 millimeters still, even though there's a brake line. Click to place that. Now let's do the upper section.
We'll click this line here. The top. And right to there.
And click. So there's that dimension. Pretty cool, right? Now let's go ahead and give this a view title.
We'll click the A for text. Click. Click again.
And we'll give this a height. We're going to call this 10 millimeters. We can start typing.
This is STEM A and STEM B. We can go ahead and click Close. And we're good to go. We want to get STEM B to be on the top line.
Not a problem. We can drag this arrow and everything should fit pretty well. Go ahead and click that Save button.
