2D Drafting

Draft’s 2D drafting facilities are designed to be complementary to its main drawing production facilities. 2D drafting allows you to add to drawings such features as Notes, plane and boundary lines, keyplans and tables of symbols. In addition, backing sheets, overlay sheets and symbol templates may be created.

2D drafting shapes (or primitives) may be positioned explicitly, with a cursor hit or by a construction. Because the principle of point construction can be applied to all Draft primitives that have a position attribute, point construction is described in Point and Line Construction. 2D positions generated by a cursor hit will be snapped to a grid position if snapping is ON. See Snapping 2D Points to a Grid.

Note: For 2D drafting purposes, it is possible to enter Draft having specified a multiple database (MDB) that does not contain a Design database. Clearly, in this ‘drafting-only’ mode, intelligent text that extracts data from a Design database cannot be used.