About Auto-drafting for Casting

The Automatic Draft capability speeds up the draft angle process to manage the whole 3D shape in one shot and to capture higher level semantic. It drastically reduces the time spent on drafting.

See Also
Creating Auto Drafts for Casting
Creating Both Side Drafts

When using Automatic Draft, keep in mind the following:

  • You cannot select a neutral element that is not intersecting the face you want to draft.

  • You should provide a parting element large enough in order to intersect the whole draft skin. Particularly, when material is added the parting element cannot be a set of faces from the body to draft because it is not large enough.

  • The parting element should also be a connected and finite face. This face should be easy to align.

  • The parting element is mandatory if the remove material mode is chosen. It is often needed for add material mode it can however be omitted if all the faces from the input body that cross the parting are functional faces, like for example in this case (the functional faces are the pink faces):