how to draw 3d in autocad lt 2017

By Marking Lancaster, Synergis Engineering Design Solutions

Have you ever contacted a vendor requesting a 3D model of their product and you simply received a 2nd cartoon of it? I volition even bet the cartoon you received had limited amount of information on it as well. Then what steps did you lot have to convert their second drawing over to 3D?

Granted in that location are a few workflows out there to take 2D geometry and make a 3D model from it, but with the release of Inventor 2016, information technology just got easier. For example, allow's say you only have access to a 2D drawing file of a stainless steel barbed connector from McMASTER-CARR

Start let's start out by creating a new part in Inventor 2016. For my configuration, no new sketch is created when I start making a part.

• Next, select Import located under the 3D Model/Create ribbon department

• Navigate to and select (open) my 2D cartoon
  • At this point the drawing you're importing should be placed somewhere in the active Inventor project surface area.
• Select on of the work planes to place the cartoon
• Select the point (origin or 0,0) where the cartoon will be inserted.
  • This point will match the (0,0) location on the drawing
• Accept the message almost the file non being saved and/or about the associated underlay that's being created.

• The drawing should at present announced on the work plane you selected earlier

• At this point the cartoon may exist inserted at the incorrect orientation and/or wrong calibration.
  • For the scaling aspect, I volition embrace that shortly.
• To reorient (if needed), correct mouse click on the drawing in the browser and select Interpret. From there I can use the rotate triad method and turn my drawing 90 degrees.

• Create a second sketch on the aforementioned work plane that was used when importing the drawing.

• At present nosotros need to start projecting the drawing geometry that will brand upward our sketch. Select the drop down nether Projection Geometry and selection Projection DWG Geometry

• Since I planned on making a revolved extrusion of this part, I will only project a certain amount of the 2D geometry. I'1000 likewise projecting the ends of the connector as structure lines in order to determine my centrality of rotation.

• Next I will finish upwardly my sketch by creating the missing geometry that will course the revolved extrusion.

• Now let'southward circumduct it and salve the part file.

• If I check the overall length of my revolved extrusion, you volition detect the scale of the imported drawing is not at a ane to one scale. In order to change the drawing calibration I will need to open the 2D cartoon file direct in i of the AutoCAD platforms.

Although I'g using AutoCAD 2016, the cartoon tin be modified in any version of AutoCAD every bit long as it's able to open it.

• I'll calibration the drawing based on the origin (0,0) point and the other thing I volition practise is move the entire drawing so one of the connector ends is setting at the cartoon origin point.

• Save the drawing and exit AutoCAD.
• At present when I return back to Inventor, a carmine lightning bolt is nowadays next to the (imported) drawing in the browser and the update icon is lit.

• In one case I perform the update, the model is scaled down based on the updated cartoon and the end of the part relocated and aligns with the origin plane/signal.

• After a couple of additional modeling steps my barb connector is now completed.

• At this betoken I could turn the visibility of the drawing off and/or suppress (or interruption) the link to the (imported) cartoon.

There you take it, a workflow that allows yous to take 2d geometry and a 3D part from it. Until side by side fourth dimension…

Mark L.

Near the Author

Mark Lancaster is a Production Support Specialist with the Synergis Engineering science Design Solutions Helpdesk team working to support customers to create information-rich designs and efficient workflows. Marking's almost previous experience is as the CAD Design Manager of Pall Corporation, ane of our long time customers. In that position, he was responsible for workstation optimization and blueprint management, established uniform standards for the local and global offices, and adult global systems to control and manage their design data.

This commodity was originally published on the Synergis Engineering Design Solutions weblog and is re-published here with kind permission.

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