Creating Front view:Ĭhange your view to Front from View cube or View drop down menu and again select FLATSHOT command. Click at a point in the drawing area where you want to place it and press Enter key thrice to accept all default values. You will see that your cursor now follows the Top view of 3D geometry. Select Include tangential edges radio button and click Create. Select “Insert as new block” in the Destination panel of Flatshot dialogue box.ĭon’t change properties of foreground lines and select the Show radio button in Obscured lines panel then change its color to yellow or other light color and line type to Hidden. Select the Flatshot tool from expanded section panel of the Home tab or type FLATSHOT on the command line and hit enter. Look at the image below it explains tangential edges more clearly. On selecting this radio button you will see the line(s) at the edges which are tangential to the adjoining edge, for example, a fillet. The last option is a radio button mentioned as “Include tangential edges”. These are hidden lines present in 2D geometry, if you want to show hidden lines then select Show radio button and change color and Linetype of obscured or hidden lines from the drop-down menu. Color and Linetype drop down menu in this panel will change properties of visible lines in the 2D geometry. These are the visible lines which are projected on XY plane along the current view which you have selected. The third option will export the 2D drawing to a new DWG file. Replace existing block radio button will replace any block which you select with the 2D created with the Flatshot tool. The first option “Insert as new block” will ensure that new 2D views generated using Flatshot will be inserted as a block in the current drawing. Flatshot dialogue box as shown in the image below will open, let’s have a look at the options of this dialogue box. Select FLATSHOT tool from expanded Section panel of the Home tab or type FLATSHOT on the command line and press enter. Change your view to Top from View Cube or from views drop down menu. Open the drawing in AutoCAD then switch to 3D modeling workspace and change visual style to Shaded.
Using this tool you can create Top, Front and Isometric views of geometry in under a minute.įor explaining this command I will use this sample 3D drawing, you can also download this drawing from this link to follow along.
If you are not familiar with annotative scaling, you might want to read this basic tutorial and how to control annotation scaling further.This command can create 2D geometries from a 3D model using its different views on XY plane in model space. Add if you don’t see it yet.Īfter you click OK, you should see the dimension now! In opened dialog box, check if the annotation scale is listed. Now select the dimension, and check the scale list in properties palette. The dimensions don’t have the active scale in the dimension scale list. Annotation Scaleīut most likely the missing dimensions is because the dimension is using annotative style. If you see the layer properties overridden and you suspect it are used by the dimension, try to unfreeze it. Open layer properties manager, then check if there any VP Freeze properties. Open layout tab, double click the viewport you want to check for problem.
If it’s true, most likely it is because the AutoCAD drawing has frozen layers in that viewport. First, AutoCAD now allow us to override layer properties for each viewport. There are two possibilities why this happen. This problem become an AutoCAD regular problem, so I thought I should share it here. Both are showing the same part from my AutoCAD drawing, I can see annotations in my left viewport, but I don’t see the annotations in the right viewport. Annotation objects can be dimensions, texts, hatches, and even blocks. But somehow you can’t see them in the other AutoCAD viewports. When you examine the AutoCAD drawing in model space, and in some viewports, everything looks OK. When you open AutoCAD layout, do you ever found your dimensions (or other annotation objects) are missing in some viewports? I saw many threads about this issue like this one in AutoCAD forum.