Creating and Exporting a PDF Drawing Set for Fusion Scooter Midterm Submission

For our midterm, let's create a PDF drawing set of all of the components we have modeled so far. The first step is go to the top level of our browser and make sure it is active. With that step complete, we can go to the top file menu and hover over New Drawing and select From Design.

In the Create Drawing window, we want to select Automatic. Fusion tells us it will create nine sheets for us. We can leave all of these defaults and click OK.

Fusion will give us a notification in the top right that says Generation Started. We can close that notification and wait for that PDF drawing set to complete. Once it's complete, we will see a new notification in the top right and a link to open the drawing.

That is the correct link we want to click. But if you accidentally close this notification, it's not a big deal. There's a notification center in the top right and it has that same open drawing link.

Once our drawing opens up, we'll notice that we have all of our nine sheets across the bottom. Let's go ahead and change a few details before exporting this out to a PDF. First, let's double click on our parts list.

We'll notice that we can also add in the part name by checking Part Name and click Close. Now let's double click on our main view. Let's change the style over to Shaded and click Close.

Now let's add a title. We'll click on the A for text, draw a text box, and we can change the font height to six. Down in Properties, we'll see the design is our Fusion Scooter Design and our source is Fusion Scooter Design.

We can change the property from part number to part name and click the plus, and that will put that name down in our text window and click Close. Now let's double click on the title block. For Document Type, let's type in Midterm.

For our Date of Issue, let's type in Today's Date. Once that's all set, go ahead and click Finish Properties. Now let's go through our set and make a couple of updates.

Let's go to page number two. This shows our overall project and it looks good. Let's go to page number three now.

Page number three. We can go ahead and click on the A for text and add in a title here. This time, we're going to change our height again to six.

Our design is still our main scooter model and our source now will switch over to our deck because we're looking at just the deck. Our property will again be part name and click the plus and close. So there's our deck.

Let's go ahead and go to sheet number three. And this is our wheel. Let's go ahead and hover over the wheel, click and drag it up to give ourselves more room.

We'll click on the A for text, drag a text box across and add our height as six millimeters. This time, our source will swap out to wheel one. Property stays part name and click the plus and close.

So there's our wheel one. Next drawing is our brake. Now, the only downside to this brake is it's upside down.

So let's double-click that brake and we can see the orientation is set to custom. Let's change that to front, from custom to front and click close. Now we're looking more straight at it.

It's an easier view to understand, but we have a couple dimensions that have fallen off of our view. We can select and delete some of those dimensions that are hanging off. We even have a couple that are pretty small.

If we want to edit this further, delete a couple more of those dimensions. And we can move these views off to the side so that everything fits. And now we can go to our text menu, select text, draw a text window, change our height to six, swap our source out for a brake.

Part name is a property, click plus and close. And we're good to go. Our next sheet over here is our folding bracket.

That one didn't quite make the page. There's this extra long dimension. Let's go ahead and select it and hit delete.

Now we can move our views until everything fits nicely on the page. Once we're satisfied with that, we can click text, draw our box. You guessed it, change the height to six.

Now we change our source over to folding bracket, keep the property at part name and click the plus and close. There's our folding bracket. Go to our next page.

And this is pretty cool. It brought in our folding bracket cut or pattern. We're going to drag that up to give ourselves more room.

And now we can go to our text, draw a window. This time we will continue with our six millimeter height, change our source until it still says folding bracket and click the plus for part name. But we can also add our own custom text.

And this time we will add in the pattern. So it says folding bracket, that's automatically populated. And then we manually type in pattern and click close.

Go to our next sheet here and we'll go to our text again, draw a text box, change our height to six. This time our source will be our fork. Click the plus and close.

And our very last sheet is now the fork pattern. We'll go to our A for text, draw a box. We'll populate fork and whoops, I clicked it too soon.

I'm going to click delete on my keyboard and change the height to six first, six. Now add the plus, so that's the fork and I'll type in manually pattern. I accidentally got an extra six right here.

I'll delete that and click close. We have our fork pattern. Now that our drawings are all squared away, we can export.

Up at the top right, there's an export button. If we pull the down arrow next to the word export, we see export PDF. We'll click that and we want to keep the defaults, which is all sheets and click okay.

It says some properties might be out of date. All we have to do here is click refresh and wait a moment. This will bring up the export PDF window.

All we need to do in the name category is add in the words midterm. File type, we will leave it as PDF. It's also a great idea to save it to a product in the cloud.

So save it to wherever you're saving your Fusion work. But we also want to save it to our computer. Save it somewhere locally, like in my documents, so that you can find this file again because this is the file, the PDF file, that you will submit for your midterm.

Once you're happy with the locations, click save and don't forget to upload that PDF as your midterm upload.