Creating and Customizing Technical Drawing Sheets for Fusion

Saving Your Project, Adding New Sheets, Base Views, and Dimensions for the Fusion Drawing

Discover how to create and save detailed design drawings using tools such as the Text, Quick Add, Base View, and Projected View functions. Learn how to add clear labels and accurate dimensions to your design project to ensure a complete and professional presentation of your work.

Key Insights

  • The article walks readers through the process of creating and saving a detailed drawing, from naming the project to implementing different views. The process begins by giving the drawing a new name and saving it to the correct project.
  • The text explains how to use the text function to add labels and titles. It also shows how to use the Quick Add function to create new sheets in a series, and how to use the Base View and Projected View functions to add different perspectives to the design.
  • The writer demonstrates how to add dimensions to the drawing, ensuring that the design's measurements are accurate and visible. The article also emphasizes the importance of saving your work regularly throughout the process.

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Now that we have our cover sheet, let's go ahead and save our drawing. Go up to the File menu and click Save. Let's give this a name.

We'll keep the Fusion 101 Scooter our first last and then we'll give it a new name at the end. We'll call it Final Drawing Set. Save it to your correct project and hit Save.

That should update the name at the top. Instead of saying Untitled, it'll now say Fusion 101 Scooter, your first name, last name, and Final Drawing Set. With that, let's add some text to our cover sheet.

In the Text menu, we're looking for Text. We'll click that and we'll click a corner in the top above our parts list and a corner on the right above our parts list. Let's change the height of our text to 10.

We can begin typing. We'll call this our Fusion 101 Scooter. We'll hit ENTER and we'll do Cover Sheet.

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Let's give it a center justification for all of that. Click on both lines and do Center Justification and click Close. Now we can drag our parts list down and drag that label down.

Once we're happy with that, we can create our next sheet, which will be sheet number one in the series. Down at the bottom left, we'll click the plus for Quick Add. Now let's give this a number.

We'll double click on the title block and we'll click in the Drawing Number area, change it to 1, and click Enter and click Finish Properties. There we go, drawing number one. Now we're ready to add a new base view.

So right here in the top left, we'll click on Base View and we'll hover over our drawing. There is our scooter. Let's go ahead and change the scale.

There's scale dot dot. We'll change this to 1 to 4. That's a little bit big, so let's change it one more time. We'll do 1 to 5 and hover over our drawing area.

That looks pretty good. We can click and now we'll say OK. So there is our base drawing for our scooter.

Now let's go ahead and go to Projected View. We'll click that, click our parent view, which is our first drawing, and then move to the right, click again, and go straight down, click again, and now there's a green check box to finish that off. Now we can adjust our view by dragging the parent view and notice how the other views drag along with it.

We want our drawings to all fit on the page. Now let's add in a few dimensions. So let's go ahead to the Dimension area and select Dimension.

The first dimension we'll do is right here. We'll do a rounded dimension or diameter. We'll click on the outside of the wheel one time, click, and then click right where we want that dimension a second time, and that locks it into place.

Now let's try adding a dimension for a more overall dimension. So let's go down to our deck. We can now click the top line of the deck one time and the bottom line of the deck a second time, and then click to set that dimension.

It shows 160 millimeters all the way across the deck. Let's try that again for our handlebars. Let's click the outside point of our handlebar on one side and the outside point on the other side, click, pull that down, and click to set our dimension.

All right, that looks pretty good. We can add some text again, so we'll go to the Text command, click that one time, and let's add text right here. We'll click one time and a second time.

We'll change our height this time to 5. Click Enter, and that makes the text go away. I shouldn't have clicked Enter. We'll try that one more time.

Text, click, click, set our height to 5, and before we close anything down, we need to start typing. We're going to call this Back View, and now we can click Enter or Close. We can move that into place, and let's do that again.

We'll click Text, we'll click one time, a second time, we'll change our height here to 5, and we'll start typing. This will be our Side View. And click Enter or Close.

There we go. Now we'll do text one more time. We'll click right here, click right here, and we'll type in Top View.

I forgot to set the height, so let's highlight all of that, click Delete, try the height again, 5, and from here we'll type in Top View and Close. Now we have our dimensions, our views, and all the labels. That looks pretty good, so go up and hit that Save button.

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Reid Johnson

Licensed Architect | Contractor | CAD/BIM Specialist

Reid isn't just someone who knows CAD and BIM; he's a licensed architect and contractor who deeply integrates these technologies into every facet of his career. His hands-on experience as a practitioner building real-world projects provides him with an invaluable understanding of how BIM and CAD streamline workflows and enhance design. This practical foundation led him to Autodesk, where he shared his expertise, helping others effectively leverage these powerful tools. Throughout his professional journey, Reid also dedicates himself to education, consistently teaching university courses and shaping the next generation of design professionals by equipping them with essential CAD skills. His unique blend of practical experience, industry knowledge gained at Autodesk, and passion for teaching positions Reid as a true specialist in BIM and CAD technology, capable of bridging the gap between theory and real-world application.

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