Creating Drawings from Parts

 Once a part is completed in Inventor, it is incredibly easy to transfer it into drawing form. Entire views can be produced with a single click, and dimensions can be placed without inputting values manually.

The image above shows half of the housing of a small blow dryer. To the left is a handle with text embossed on the top. At the center is the main compartment with a grill to allow airflow. to the right is the shaft that will direct air out. I placed an image of the part itself as a decal on the shaft.

The image below represents the same part, but it uses orthographic projection instead of a realistic isometric view. Their is a front view, a section view from the right, a section view from the bottom, and a section view from the left. The their are detailed views of the left section and the grill. It was difficult to get the section views to look right because I had to make the viewing depth so short that the curvature of the part would not be visible. It was also difficult to import the decal. I ended up placing it onto a power point slide and importing the slide.

Orthographic projections can be made much faster in inventor than AutoCAD because once the part is finished, the program knows what every view should look like.