AutoCAD: Documenting 3D Models

Demonstrates AutoCAD's "model documentation" feature set for projecting 2D plans, elevations, sections, and detail drawings directly from a 3D model.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files
• Visualizing the model

1. Setting Up Layouts and Viewports

• Setting options and configuring page setup for new layouts
• Building attributed title blocks for two sheets
• Configuring viewports for the document model
• Flattening in model space and inserting on a layout

2. Exploring Model-Documentation Features

• Creating a base drawing projection from the model
• Projecting elevations from the model
• Creating new base drawings from selected objects
• Cutting a cross-sectional view through the model
• Detailing an isometric projection
• Detailing a single object
• Labeling all projected drawings

Conclusion

• Next steps