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Now would be a good time for an incremental save.

(In the Model tree, click on the first View and Shift click on the last View to highlight all of them, Data tab, Line Width property, set to 0.5)

We can tweak a bit the aspect of our views if we want, for example we can raise their Line Width property to 0.5.

After that, we obtain the following page (for some it will seem unnatural for the top view to appear beneath the front view like this):.

View002 & 003 (front view): X: 100, Y: 130, Scale: 0.1, Rotation: 90, Direction: (-1,0,0) (click on small arrow to the left of Direction to access values.).

(Again highlight both Views to change both at the same time.) Give each new view the following properties: We will set their X and Y values, which indicate the position of the view on the page, in order to show them apart from the top view, and their direction, to create different view orientations. Remember to highlight both items in the Model tree before pressing Insert View.

Let's repeat the operation twice, to create two more views.We now have a nice top view (which is the default projection) of our chair:.Highlight both View lines in the Model tree, and click on the Data tab. A View object will be created on our page.Select the whole model, both the seat and the frame. In the tree view (or in the model tab), select the chair model.A new tab will open in your FreeCAD window, showing the new page. Select the A4 Portrait / ISO7200 template.Press the small arrow next to the New Drawing Page button.step version, as it will be easier to manipulate. Since we won't need to model any further now, it is best to choose the. step version, which will create only one object, without the history.

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FCStd version, which will load the full modeling history, or the.

Load the IkeaChair file from the library.

The FreeCAD library can easily be added to your FreeCAD installation (refer to the installing chapter of this manual), or you can simply download the model from the library webpage, or via the direct link provided at the end of this chapter.

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In the following exercise, we will see how to create a simple drawing of a chair model found in the FreeCAD library (Furniture -> Chairs -> IkeaChair).

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Finally, thanks to an addon called Drawing Dimensioning Workbench, you can also place all kinds of annotations on the sheet, such as dimensions, texts, and other usual symbols commonly used in technical drawings.ĭrawing sheets, once complete, can be printed or exported as SVG, PDF or DXF files.

On these sheets, you can then place views of the 3D objects you modeled previously, and configure how these views must appear on the sheet. The Drawing Workbench allows you to create sheets, which can be blank or use a pre-made template containing pre-drawn items on the sheet, such as borders and title block. In FreeCAD, the workbench responsible for making such drawings is the Drawing Workbench. These drawings usually contain not only the drawing itself, but also many annotations, such as texts, dimensions, numbers, symbols that will help others to understand what needs to be done and how. Typical examples are Ikea instructions, architectural drawings or blueprints. In technical fields (engineering, architecture, etc), this is usually done with drawings, that are handed over to someone else explaining the designer's vision.

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When your model cannot be printed or milled directly by a machine, for example it is too big (a building) or it requires manual assembly after the pieces are ready, you will usually need to explain to another person how things fit together.

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