3D model to 2D 3 view drawing tutorial

Steve Cole

Bricscad version 12.2.16  build id 38526 revision 26705  running on XUbuntu 12.10 

Can someone point me to a tutorial that shows how to get to a    --3 view 2D paper layout--      from a 3D model.

I have been going round in circles with this for ages.

Thanks 

Knut Hohenberg

Hello Steve,

Do I understand you right in that you want 2d (hidden line) representations of a model from 3 different view angles put in a layout?
Well, if you expect something like an automatic setup of views which print with hidden lines removed, this doesn't work at the moment (at least not on linux).
 
But I never missed this, you can easily create 2d geometry from your model and place it wherever you like.
I don't know of any tutorial covering this, but the steps needed are like this:

1.) create the viewports in your layout (using mview)
2.) in each of the viewports, set up the view angle as wished (for example, -vpoint 1,-1,1 will give you a front right isometric)
3.) set up the view scale, either by using the xp option of the zoom command inside the viewports, or by selecting the viewports in paper space and setting the scale in the properties window
4.) pan the views to your liking
5.) create a layer for your 2d-representation and set it current
6.) use the flatshot command in the viewports to create the 2d representations. If you disable the insertion point, scale and rotation options and set the plane to 'Current view plane', the 2d representation will coincide with your view of the model
7.) use the 'VP Freeze' column in the layer explorer to hide all layers in the viewports except the one you created

Instead of using several mviews, I normally prefer to place the generated 2d-geometry somewhere on the xy plane and arrange it there to my liking, but that's a matter of taste.

Hope this gets you going...

Steve Cole

 Thanks for the reply