About the Download
CHAPTER-1 Introduction to Drafting
- Model based drafting Vs Stand alone drafting
- NX Drafting methods and the master model workflow
- Drafting user interface and preferences
CHAPTER-2 Setting up and creating drawings
- Setting Drafting and PMI standard
- Creating a new drawing
- The no drawing state
- Borders, Zones and Title block
CHAPTER -3 Basic View creation
- View Creation Wizard
- Standard views
- Projected views
- Detail views
- View Break
- Part Navigator shortcut menu options
CHAPTER-4 Controlling the appearance of your drafting view
- Setting and changing the style of your view
- Change a view’s scale
- Change a drafting view’s angle
- Automatic Anchor Points
- Make a reference/active view
- Display hidden edges of overlapping solid bodies
- Display a referenced edge
- Simplify and hide small features
- Wireframe color from face
- General usage notes for shaded drafting views
- Create a shaded view
- Add partial shading to a drafting view
- Displaying threads in a drafting view
- Transfer view-dependent annotation from a model view to a drawing
CHAPTER-5 Drafting view fundamentals
- Drafting view labels
- Layer visibility in views
- Updating a drafting view
- Positioning and orienting a drafting view
- Adding PMI to your drawing
- Managing a view boundary
- Managing view dependent edits
CHAPTER-6 Section views and section lines
- Simple Section views
- Stepped Section views
- Half Section views
- Revolved Section views
- Folded Section views
- Unfolded Section views
- Oriented Section views
- Pictorial Section views
- Break-out Section views
- Section Line symbol
- Setting the style of your section line
- Editing the components of a section line
CHAPTER-7 Drafting annotation
- Controlling the appearance of your annotation
- Annotation placement
- Leader lines for annotation and symbols
- Editing drawing annotation
- Edit Text
CHAPTER-8 Drafting dimensions
- Dimension user interface
- Creating and editing dimension
CHAPTER-9 Geometric Dimension and Tolerance in Drafting
- Feature control frame
- Datum target
- Datum Feature symbol
CHAPTER-10 Assembly drawings
- Working with assembly drawings
- View update performance and efficiency
- Section Components in View
- Section view preferences
- Exploded views in drawings
- Tables and Parts Lists
- Ballon creation
- Working with large assembly drawings
CHAPTER-11 Custom Symbols
- Custom Symbol
- Smash Custom Symbol
- Define Custom Symbol
- Edit Custom Symbol
- Replace Custom Symbol
CHAPTER-12 Tracking drawing changes
- Track Drawing Changes
- Create persistent drawing comparison data
- Identify the impact of modeling changes on an existing drawing
- Create a log of drawing changes made during your NX session
CHAPTER-13 Drawing automation
- Drawing templates
- Mark as Template
- Adding attributes to drawing templates
- Template Region
- Adding objects to a region
- Automation Rules
- Annotate Views
- Distribute Annotations
CHAPTER-14 Misc.
- Placing Images on drawings
- Creating 2D curves in Drafting
- Copy/Cut and Paste in Drafting
- Copying Drawing Views to 3D
