topic Re: Create projected 2D views of assemblies in 3D Part & Assembly Design

Create projected 2D views of assemblies

xwalker — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 01:45:17 GMT

I'm working with colleagues who are using AutoCAD and one of their uses is to have building floor layouts with projected top-down views of the footprint of desks and equipment.I have modelled a set of desks in Creo and need to figure out the easiest way of creating a DXF footprint.Is

Re: Create projected 2D views of assemblies

manjunathrv — Mon, 23 May 2016 11:47:26 GMT

If you have already modeled your required plan then you can quickly create some top views in a drawing and save-as that drawing to .dxf or .dwg format that is AutoCAD format.

Re: Create projected 2D views of assemblies

rrangaswamy — Tue, 24 May 2016 10:01:45 GMT

Just create a drawing from your Model by the following method,

New ---> Drawing (enable tic mark on the "Use Default template") ----> select "Use template" option -----> select the paper size -----> It will give you the default views of Front,Top & Side View

you can save as this file as DXF which can be opened in AutoCAD

Re: Create projected 2D views of assemblies

xwalker — Tue, 24 May 2016 10:55:12 GMT

Thank you both for your responses, after playing around a bit, I went down the drawing route.

Once I changed the scale and removed the page border, it's fine and accurate. It just takes forever - need a more powerful PC - and creates a large file as it has all the details of every vertex.

Out of interest, is there a way of simplifying it further? I've already set the view to hide the hidden lines so simplified it as much as obviously possible.

Thanks

Re: Create projected 2D views of assemblies

StephenW — Tue, 24 May 2016 11:33:34 GMT

Maybe your desk model is too detailed so your dxf output if too big. A desk can be as simple as a rectangle (4 lines).

A screen shot might help.

Re: Create projected 2D views of assemblies

xwalker — Tue, 24 May 2016 12:06:49 GMT

It is quite complex and there are a lot of lines representing things on the desk. I could of course temporarily delete them / hide them so they don't show up. It would simplify the drawing. Or, once you have the DXF, manually delete the lines inside.