Working with Drafting

You can create a drawing from meshes.

Before you begin:

See the Drafting User's Guide for more information.

The following steps are mandatory:

  • You must have access to Drafting.
  • Under App Preferences > 3D Modeling > Mechanical Systems > Drafting, in the View section,
    • Under Geometry generation/Dress-up, select the Project 3D wireframe check box.
    • Under View generation, specify View generation mode as Approximate, and 3D extracted representations as As session.
  • The meshes must all be under Geometrical Sets or Ordered Geometrical Sets. However, it is not mandatory to have them all under one single Geometrical Set or one single Ordered Geometrical Set. Meshes under a Hybrid Body or a Body in a Set are not taken into account.
  • All meshes must be displayed in Smooth mode, not in Flat mode.
  • Hide all the elements and sets that you do not want to transfer into the drawing.
  1. Our example is based on those meshes:

    1. Open your model.
    2. Go to Drafting.
    3. In Drafting, click Front View .
    4. In the tab where the meshes are, select a plane.
    On the sheet, a blue knob appears, as well as a green frame containing a preview of the view to be created.

    Note: Use the handles of the knob to define the location and orientation of the view to create.
  2. Click the drawing sheet or at the center of the blue knob to generate the view:


  3. Generate a section cut of the meshes:
    1. In Drafting, click Aligned Section Cut .
    2. In the tab where the meshes are, select a sketch that defines the section.
    The sketch is added to the drawing and a preview of the Aligned Section Cut is displayed:

  4. Position the Aligned Section Cut by a pick in the drawing:
  5. Generate a section view of the meshes:
    1. Proceed as in step 3., but click Aligned Section View .
    All these views are on one sheet:

  6. You can add names and symbols of each layer. As they are not generated automatically, you must create them manually.

Notes:
  • Graduations are not generated automatically, even in section cuts.
  • Elements other than meshes can be taken into account: