2D Drawings for Patents
2D Drawings for Patents
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Just wanted to get people's feedback on using Solid Works for preparing patent illustrations. We've used 2D drawing programs up to this point but thinking of upgrading to Solid Works. Thanks!
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RE: 2D Drawings for Patents
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RE: 2D Drawings for Patents
There are several books that detail what is required and what is suggested for drawings. Some of the stuff that an official drawing guy might want that SWX doesn't do readily is the lines used to shade surfaces such as cylinders. This is easy enough to do on a printed page by hand. By the way, hand drawings and photographs are also allowed in patents.
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RE: 2D Drawings for Patents
Dan
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RE: 2D Drawings for Patents
For example, I have a set drawings that consists of multiple views of a chair (as an example). By modeling the the chair in SW and then shading/numbering in 2D program should save me a ton of time. If I were to do the job just in a 2D program, I've got to redraw each view from scratch (usually).
Alfonso Martinez
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RE: 2D Drawings for Patents
Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
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RE: 2D Drawings for Patents
Swks will do the hard part by converting any standard view, section or angled view or exploded view or section view to what you need by creating the Swks 2D drawings (I leave off the border/title block) and exporting as dxf.
Then a 2D vector program can eliminate any extra lines and add notes-leaders, shading and adjust line weights for the final 2D form.
RE: 2D Drawings for Patents
One thing that really helps is to save the view you want in SolidWorks (as a custom view)--and then make sure you add perspective to that view before bringing in the custom view to your drawing. Your patent drawings will then be in perspective (instead of some isometric format), which looks much more convincing than non-perspective views.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
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RE: 2D Drawings for Patents
Alfonso Martinez
AM Patent Drawings
http://www.ampatentdrawings.com
RE: 2D Drawings for Patents
That will save you an incredible amount of time, if the inventor already has 3D CAD files.