About Draft Properties

Draft Properties assigns draft properties to an active body of the functional features. You can also assign draft properties to a feature by defining properties specific to the feature you are creating.

This page discusses:

See Also
Setting Draft Properties
Inserting a Solid Functional Set

Draft Properties Versus Intrinsic to Feature

The draft properties apply to all the features of the shellable body provided that these are not assigned the Intrinsic to feature option to define their draft behaviors. If that occurs, then you have to edit the features. More precisely, from the Draft behavior list in the Draft tab, select Draft Properties.

You can select the 2D output sketches, 2D output profiles, and 2D layout profiles as neutral element of intrinsic draft.

To see an example, see Creating a Boss.

Selecting Draft Properties from Another Solid Functional Set

You can access draft properties defined in another solid functional set. All draft properties are displayed and can be selected for feature definition even though draft properties are defined in different solid functional sets. At the selection of draft properties in the dialog box, all the draft properties located in the document are displayed in the Draft behavior box. You can select any of them for the feature you are defining.

Display Only Parents

Display Only Parents can be used while editing a functional feature. It is mainly useful for local modifiers such as draft, chamfer, and fillet features that use face or edge selections.

It displays the minimum creation context of the feature being edited by deactivating the feature and all the features which are not parents from it.

For more information, see Using the Display Only Parents Option to Retrieve a Creation Context.