This article provides a step-by-step guide to creating a final sheet in Fusion model by activating a flat pattern, changing workspace, creating a new sheet, setting reference, updating drawing number, and adding dimensions. It further details the process of saving and exporting the final sheet as a PDF file.
Key Insights:
- The article outlines the process of creating a final sheet in Fusion model, starting with activating the flat pattern in the folding bracket and changing the workspace to drawing from design.
- The article explains how to update the drawing number and add a name to the final sheet. A bend table is created for folds or bends, and dimensions are added to the center section, radius, and small holes.
- The final part of the tutorial focuses on exporting the completed work. The sheet is saved and then exported as a PDF file, which can be saved to the project in a cloud or saved to the user's computer.
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For our final sheet, we're going to go back to our Fusion model. Let's go back to our home view and minimize our named views. Let's look down and find our folding bracket and expand that component.
There is a flat pattern in our folding bracket and let's go ahead and activate that flat pattern. Now we're in the flat pattern view and we want to go up to our design pull-down so we can change our workspace. Go to drawing and go to from design.
Now we want a drawing, we don't want to do create new, we want to change it to our Fusion drawing. So our Fusion 101 scooter final drawing set and for our sheet we want to create a new sheet. We want our sheet size to be A3 and orientation to be landscape.
Now notice that the reference is already set for us. Why is that? That's because we already activated the flat pattern. We're in the flat pattern view.
Fusion picked up on that and set that for us. We're going to go ahead and click okay and we have that new sheet and we can place our flat pattern. So go ahead and click one time and click okay.
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Let's update our drawing number. Right now it's set to three. We'll double click and change that to four and click finish properties.
If it didn't take like mine didn't, just repeat that process for make sure we click enter and finish properties. There we go. Now let's give this a name.
I'm going to go up to text. We'll draw right below the flat pattern. One time we'll click and then go to the right.
We'll change our height to 10 and we're going to start typing. We're going to call this folding bracket flat pattern and click close. We can select it, pull the arrow to make sure everything fits on one line and center it.
Now we have a couple of folds here or bends. We're going to go up to our tables and click table. Now Fusion is smart.
It assumes of all the tables that we want a bend table. We know what we want. Let's go ahead and click one time for our bend table and it populates all the information for us.
From there let's add some dimensions. Let's click the dimension button and let's dimension the center section. We'll click the bottom line one time and the top line and then click.
Places that dimension. Now let's add in our radius dimensions. We'll click right here and it's a little hard to click.
We might have to zoom in. We want to get that radius and I want it on the outside. So I'll move my cursor until it's on the outside.
Radius of 10 and click one time to place it. Now we'll do the bottom left side. Again on the outside we'll click one time to set it, second time to place it.
Let's also dimension these little holes in the middle. If we hover over we can get the diameter and we'll get diameter of five. Click to place it.
Alright, that looks really good. Let's go ahead and hit the save button and at this point we're ready to export. We'll pull down the export and we want to select export PDF.
What do we want to export? We want all sheets and we do want line weights. We'll go ahead and click ok. It does want us to refresh.
Not a problem. We'll click refresh and now we get the export PDF window. So what are we exporting? PDF files.
The name looks really good. It picked up our name which is our Fusion 101 scooter first and last name final drawing set. We can save it to our project in a cloud and also save it to our computer.
That will give us the PDF file we need to upload to the course. Go ahead and click save and we are done.
