Onshape Complete drawing course

Learn to create professional part and assembly drawings with accurate views, dimensions, annotations, BOMs, balloons, and practical drawing exercises

About this courseThis course teaches the complete workflow for creating clear, accurate, and production-ready engineering drawings from parts and assemblies. It is designed to build practical drawing skills progressively, starting with the fundamentals and moving toward detailed part, assembly, and exploded drawings.You will begin by understanding how engineering drawings are structured and how to create a new drawing correctly. The course introduces drawing templates and standards so you can establish consistent sheet layouts and work with drawing conventions used in professional documentation.From there, you will learn how to communicate component geometry through drawing views. You will work with standard projected views as well as section and detail views to clearly represent internal features and areas that require additional clarification. You will also learn how assembly drawings are created to communicate the relationship between multiple components.The course then focuses on dimensions and annotations. You will learn how to dimension drawings effectively, add notes and annotations, create hole callouts, specify tolerances, and use balloons and other callouts. These skills help transform basic drawing views into documentation that contains the information needed for manufacturing, inspection, and assembly.You will also explore associativity between parts, assemblies, and their drawings. This section explains how drawing information remains connected to the underlying models and how those relationships can support a more efficient documentation workflow. You will learn how to insert a Bill of Materials and connect drawing balloons with BOM entries, helping you create organized assembly documentation.The final part of the course is focused on drawing practice. You will apply the concepts covered throughout the course to create part drawings for components such as a clevis and holder, work with assembly drawings, produce exploded assembly documentation, and complete exercises involving section and detail views.By the end of the course, you should be able to create structured engineering drawings that clearly communicate component geometry, dimensions, tolerances, assembly information, and manufacturing details. You will also understand how to organize drawing information using templates, BOMs, balloons, and associative model relationships.Who should take this courseThis course is suitable for CAD users, mechanical engineering students, designers, drafters, and engineers who want to develop practical skills in creating engineering drawings for individual parts and assemblies.It is particularly useful for learners who understand basic 3D part or assembly modeling and now want to create professional documentation containing projected views, section views, dimensions, tolerances, annotations, Bills of Materials, balloons, and exploded assembly drawings.<h2>Pre-requisites</h2>Learners should have basic familiarity with the CAD software used in the course and understand fundamental part and assembly modeling concepts. Experience navigating the software interface and opening or working with existing parts and assemblies will make the course easier to follow.No advanced engineering drawing experience is required, as the course introduces the drawing workflow from the fundamentals before progressing to more detailed documentation and practical exercises.