Converting 3d Model to 2d face

I like to create a 3D model first but what is the easiest way to get 2D projections from this? (ie top view, side view) Mainly, I need to know for dimensioning purposes. The 3D view helps me, but I need the 2D to give to the fab shop.

 

Solview and Soldraw

 

Use paperspace viewports, and rotate your viewpoint in different viewports with the VIEW toolbar


or

use the VPOINT command to view the model from different directions.

Command: VPOINT
Current view direction: VIEWDIR=0'-0",0'-0",0'-1"
Specify a view point or [Rotate] <display compass and tripod>: 0,1,0

0,1,0 is a "front" view looking up
1,0,0 is a "right" view looking left
0,-1,0 is a "back" view looking down
-1,0,0 is a "left" view looking right


or

Command: VPOINT
Current view direction: VIEWDIR=0'-0",0'-0",0'-1"
Specify a view point or [Rotate] <display compass and tripod>: R
Enter angle in XY plane from X axis <270.000000>:
Enter angle from XY plane <90.000000>: 0

A view "from" the X axis 270 deg, and "from" the XY plane 0 deg. is a "front" view looking up
0 deg + 0 deg. is a "right" view looking left
90 deg + 0 deg. is a "back" view looking down
180 deg + 0 deg. is a "left" view looking right

 

I like to create a 3D model first but what is the easiest way to get 2D

'project' will flatten it but you will have multiple lines stacked flat,
then download cleardupe.lsp to delete duplicate lines, probably the old
fashioned way but it works.
Lloyd

 

SOLPROF command used in a layout through a viewport created hidden and
visible lines and put's them on new layers. Use help for a better
understanding.

 

SOLPROF divorces the drawing from the model.

 

USE SECTION COMMAND & SELECT THE PLANE DURING SECTION FROM WHICH YOU WANT THE 2D VIEW.

REGARDS,

 

Reply From: OLD-CADaver
Date: Mar/29/05 - 18:12 (CST)

Re: Converting 3d Model to 2d face
SOLPROF divorces the drawing from the model.
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Divorce is good. I am divorced. I like divorce. I like solprof. It's easy, fast and painless. What is not painless is having to dimension it. Nor is dimensioning the model itself fun or easy and as you have stated before, dimensioning the model to be viewed in an isometric view is a bit tricky with the extension lines getting hidden and such. No problem with solprof. Dimension the model, do the solprof, dump all the junk, purge and flatten the dims with a good flattener program.

True, it is divorced from the model (a facsimile), but way too easy to recreate. It's jus' those dam (sp) dims. Dam darn dern dumb dims. When dims are automatic, then by god you can be assured that I'm retired and forgot everything I ever knew about CAD.

 

SOLXXXX works on 3DSOLIDS ONLY. It doesn't work on surfaces or meshes or blocks or lines or circle or dims or anything els, just 3DSOLIDS. They also create more and more layers. To top it off, you're no longer working from the model you've labored to build, but from a facsimile, so you have two complete sets of data to maintain regarding the same enitity.

Once one has learned to properly view a 3d model in PS and properly place PS annotation, one realizes that doing so is CONSIDERABLY easier than the SOLLXXXX method from R10.

 

Same as SOLxxx, only less.

 

OLDCAD is correct about learning to manipulate views using your 3D model .It takes little time (and some squinting sometimes) before you get the hang of it but it's a skill worth acquring -if for no other reason, managing only one set of data makes learning how worth while.