Learning Objectives:

• Understand the Drafting environment.

• Understand the types of views that can be generated in NX.
• Generate drawing views.
• Manipulate drawing views.
• Add annotation to drawing views.
• Modify the annotation created in the drawing views.
• Generate the exploded drawing views of the assembly.
• Create a tabular note and add it to the Tables palette.
• Insert an image into a drawing sheet.
• Print a drawing sheet.
• Plot a drawing sheet.
 INVOKING THE DRAFTING ENVIRONMENT
• Invoking the Drafting Environment Using the Drawing Template
from the New Dialog Box

The New dialog box

The Drafting environment
• Invoking the Drafting Environment in the Current Part File

The Drafting environment window of NX

The Drafting environment of NX
 EDITING DRAWING SHEET PARAMETERS IN THE
DRAFTING ENVIRONMENT
• Right-click on the drawing limits border represented by the dashed lines, and
choose the Edit Sheet option from the shortcut menu; the Sheet dialog box will be
displayed.
• Next, change the parameters in the Sheet dialog box and choose the OK button to
reflect the changes.

 INVOKING THE DRAFTING TOOLS

• After invoking the Drafting environment, you have to invoke the Drafting toolbar.
• Right-click on the main menu bar and choose the Drawing and Dimension
options from the toolbars shortcut menu; the Drawing and the Dimension
toolbars will be displayed.
 TYPES OF DRAWING VIEWS IN NX
In the Drafting environment of NX, you can generate nine types of drawing views for a
component or an assembly. The drawing views that can be generated in the Drafting
environment are listed next.
• Base View
• Projected View
• Detail View
• Section View
• Auxiliary View
• Half-Section View
• Revolved Section View
• Break-Out Section View
• Broken View
 GENERATING DRAWING VIEWS
• In NX, the base view is generated as the parent view from the model or an assembly.
The other views are generated and projected directly from the base view.
Generating Views Using the View Creation Wizard Tool
Menu: Insert > View > View Creation Wizard
Toolbar: Drawing > Add View drop-down >View Creation Wizard

The Part page of the View

Creation Wizard
Options Page
Orientation Page

The Orientation page of the View Creation

Wizard
The Orient View Tool dialog box The Orient View window
Layout Page

The Layout page of the View Creation Wizard

• Generating the Base View
Menu: Insert > View > Base View
Toolbar: Drawing > Base View

The Base View dialog box

• Generating the Orthographic Drawing Views using the
Projected View Tool

Menu: Insert > View > Projected View

The Projected View dialog box The hinge line emerging from the
base view
• Generating the Detail View using the Detail View Tool
Menu: Insert > View > Detail View
Toolbar: Drawing > Detail View

The detail view generated for the piston

The Detail View dialog box to show the fins
• Label on Parent Rollout

• Adding a Prefix Text to the View Label

• Editing the Detail View Label

The View Label Style

dialog box
• Generating Section Views using the Section View Tool
Menu: Insert > View > Section > Simple/Stepped
Toolbar: Drawing > Section View

Section view generated using Section view generated using

a segmented section line multisegmented section line
The modified Section View dialog box The Full section view generated for
the Casting
• Modifying the Properties of the Section View Label

• Editing the Section Line

• Editing the Hatching Lines

The Crosshatch dialog box The Section Line

dialog box
• Generating the Half Section View using the Half Section View Tool

Toolbar: Drawing > Section View > Half Section View

Section line prompting for the Half section view generated after
pivot point positioning the section line holes
• Generating the Revolved Section View
Toolbar: Drawing > Revolved Section View

Section line after specifying the The revolved section view

rotation point
• Generating the Break-Out Section View
Menu: Insert > View > Break-Out Section View
Toolbar: Drawing > Section View > Break-Out Section

The Break-Out Section dialog box

The boundary curve defined The resulting break-Out section view
for generating the break-Out generated
section view
• Generating the Broken View
Toolbar: Drawing > View break

The Broken View dialog box

Regular broken view Single sided broken view
 MANIPULATING THE DRAWING VIEWS
• Aligning the Drawing Views using the Align View Tool
Toolbar: Drawing > Align View (Customize to add)

The Align View dialog box

• View Boundary
Toolbar: Drawing > View Boundary (Customize to add)

• Anchor Point

The View Boundary dialog box

• Displaying the Model using the Display Sheet Tool
Menu: View > Display Sheet
Toolbar: Drawing > Display Sheet (Customize to add)

• Inserting a Drawing Sheet using the New Sheet Tool

Menu: Insert > Sheet
Toolbar: Drawing > New Sheet
 MODIFYING THE PROPERTIES OF THE GENERATED
DRAWING VIEW
• Modifying the Scale Value of the Drawing View

The View Style dialog box

• Displaying the Hidden lines in a Drawing View
When the drawing views are generated from the model that has internal edges, then
the internal edges will not be displayed in the view, unless it is a section view.
• Other Options in the Hidden Lines Tab
• To display the edges hidden by edges, select the Edges Hidden by Edges check box.
• If you have too many small features in the model, then you can filter their display by
fixing a cutoff percentage regarding their size using the Small Feature slider.
• Moving the Drawing Views in the Drawing Sheet
The drawing views can be moved in the drawing limits area and be dynamically
positioned.
• Displaying the Symbolic Thread Feature
You can also display the symbolic thread feature created in the model in the drawing
view.
 ADDING DIMENSIONS TO THE DRAWING VIEWS
• Retrieving Dimensions from the Model
Toolbar: Dimension > Feature Parameters (Customize to add)
The Feature Parameters
dialog box
• Adding Dimensions to the Drawing View

• Chamfer Dimensioning
• Cylindrical Dimensioning
• Baseline Dimensioning
• Chain Dimensioning

• Chamfer Dimensioning
Toolbar: Dimension > Inferred > Chamfer Dimension
• Cylindrical Dimensioning
Toolbar: Dimension > Inferred > Cylinderical Dimension

• Baseline Dimensioning

Toolbar: Dimension > Horizontal Baseline / Vertical Baseline

• Chain Dimensioning

Toolbar: Dimension > Horizontal Chain / Vertical Chain

 GENERATING EXPLODED VIEWS OF THE ASSEMBLY
Menu: Insert > View > Base View
Toolbar: Drawing > Base View

The drawing view generated for the

exploded state of an assembly
 CREATING PARTS LIST AND ASSOCIATIVE BALLOONS
• Creating a Parts List for an Assembly
Menu: Insert > Table > Parts List
Toolbar: Tables > Parts List

The resulting drawing sheet after generating the parts list

• Creating Associative Balloons

Toolbar: Tables > Auto Balloon

The drawing sheet with the autoballoons

created
The Identification Symbol dialog box
• Creating a Tabular Note (Title Block)
Toolbar: Tables > Tabular Note

• Resizing and Merging the Rows and Columns of the Tabular Note
• You can dynamically resize the rows and columns by dragging the borders.
• The figure shows the tabular note, which is created and modified to suit the drawing
sheet in size aspect.

The drawing sheet with the

tabular note (title block)
• Adding a User-Defined Tabular Note to the Tables Palette
After you create the required tabular note, you can add it to the library also.

• Inserting the Company Logo (Image) in the Tabular Note

Menu: Insert > Image
Toolbar: Annotation > Image (Customize to add)

The drawing sheet after

inserting the image
 ADDING MULTILINE TEXT TO THE DRAWING SHEET
Menu: Insert > Note
Toolbar: Annotation > Note (Customize to add)

The Note dialog box

 PRINTING TOOLS
After generating the required drawing views, you may need to print the drawing sheet
to send it for manufacturing.
• Print
Menu: File > Print
Toolbar: Standard > Print (Customize to add)

The Print dialog box

• Plot
Menu: File > Plot

The Plot dialog box

 Tutorial 1
In this tutorial, you will generate the top view, front view, right-side view, and isometric
view of the model created in Exercise 2 of chapter 6. Use the standard A2 landscape
sheet format for generating the drawing views. You will also create a tabular note for the
drawing sheet and add an image to it and save it in the Tables palette. After generating
the drawing views of the model and creating the tabular note, the drawing sheet will
appear, as shown in Figure. (Expected time : 1 hr)

The drawing sheet after generating the drawing

views and adding the title block to it
1. Open the part file and invoke the Drafting environment, refer to the Figure.

The empty drawing sheet displayed after

invoking the Drafting environment
2. Generate the drawing views of the model, refer to the figure.

The drawing sheet after creating the

drawing views
3. Add a tabular note to the drawing sheet, refer to the Figure.

The drawing sheet after creating the drawing

views and tabular note
4. Insert the logo of company in the tabular note, refer to the Figure.

The final drawing sheet

5. Add the tabular note created to the Tables palette.

6. Print the drawing sheet.
7. Plot the drawing sheet.
8. Save the drawing sheet.
 Tutorial 2
In this tutorial, you will create all the parts of the Double Bearing assembly in the
Modeling environment and save them in the specified folder . Next, you will assemble
them in the Assembly environment. After creating the assembly, you will create its
exploded view in the assembly file. Next, you will generate the drawing views of the
Double Bearing assembly in the Drafting environment. Also, you will generate the
Parts List, Autoballoons and insert the tabular note Table-1 from the Tables palette, as
shown in Figure A. The dimensions and drawing views of various components in the
assembly are shown in Figures B through Figure F. (Expected Time : 2 hrs)

Figure A The drawing sheet after generating the drawing views,

parts list, autoballons, and inserting the title block
Figure B Top view of the Base Figure C Top view of the Cap

Figure D Front view of the Base Figure E Front view of the Cap
 Figure F Dimensions and drawing
views of the Bushing and the Bolt

1. Create all the components of the Double Bearing assembly in the Modeling environment.

2. Assemble the components in the Assembly environment.

3. Create the exploded view of the assembly in the assembly file.

4. Invoke the Drafting environment.

5. Create the isometric view and exploded drawing view of the assembly, refer to Figure G.

Figure G The drawing sheet after generating

the isometric and the exploded drawing view
of the assembly
6. Create the parts list and the autoballoons, refer to Figure H.

Figure H The drawing sheet after generating

the drawing view, parts list, and autoballons
for the assembly
7. Insert the Tabular Note Table-1 from the Tables Palette, refer to Figure I.

Figure I The completed drawing sheet after generating the drawing

view, parts list, autoballoons, and inserting the title block

8. Print the drawing sheet.

9. Plot the drawing sheet.
10. Save the drawing sheet.
 Tutorial 3
In this tutorial, you will generate the front view, left side view, and the top view of the
model created in Tutorial 1 of chapter 7. You need to retrieve the dimensions from
the model and manually add the required dimensions to the drawing views shown in
the Figure. (Expected time : 30 min)

The drawing views of the model after retrieving

and creating the dimensions
1. Open the part file created in chapter 7 and invoke the Drafting environment.
2. Generate the drawing views of the model, as shown in the figure.

The drawing sheet after generating the

drawing views of the model
3. Create the dimensions for all the views, as shown in the figure.

The completed drawing sheet after adding the

counterbore dimension
4. Save the drawing file.