Creating a New Drawing

This task will show you how to create more or less automatically a new drawing with pre-defined views generated from a part.
Open the GenDrafting_part.CATPart document.
1. Select the Start -> Mechanical Design commands.

2. Select the Drafting workbench.

 

The New Drawing Creation dialog box appears with information on views that can possibly be created, as well as information on the drawing standards.
 

 

3. Select the views you want to be automatically created on your drawing from the New Drawing Creation dialog box.

4. Click OK.

ainfo.gif (980 bytes) You can modify the drawing standards. For this, click the Modify button.
awarning.gif (1007 bytes) Be careful: the New Drawing Creation dialog box only displays on the condition you previously opened a CATPart document.
These are the resulting views generated as you start creating the CATDrawing, from the opened CATPart.

 

awarning.gif (1007 bytes) BE CAREFUL: if the color of the part is white and the 3D colors inheritance option checked, the generated views will result white and therefore not necessarily properly visualized.

 

ainfo.gif (980 bytes) The resulting view position will depend on the CATPart you loaded before starting the Drafting workbench. In other words, the views will be positioned according to:
a plane you possibly selected in the part.
a planar surface you possibly selected in the part.
xy coordinates, in case you did not open a CATPart beforehand. In this case, you will only be able to define the drawing standards via the New Drawing dialog box.

 

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