General Functions

The Draft graphical user interface has been designed to allow you to generate and retrieve industry-standard engineering drawings quickly and efficiently.

Dimensioning and other annotations can then be added. It is not necessary to make any calculations or input any data, as all annotation information comes directly from the design model.

Drawing Creation

You can select the particular part of the design model and the direction and scale to use.

The design model can be viewed from any angle at any scale, including isometric views, with perspective if required. The appearance of the 3D graphics is controlled from representation rules that are pre-defined by the project administrator. This allows different types of design items to have different line styles applied to them. The required representation can be selected during view creation.

Various levels of wireline and hidden-line removal can be used. Sectional views can be generated by the creation of flat or stepped section planes, and there are no restrictions on the number of planes created or the selection of items that can be sectioned. The scale of the 3D graphics can be selected from a set of Metric, Architectural and Engineering values, with the option of an automatic scale selection to use the largest scale possible for the given design data and drawing sheet size.

Hierarchy

Facilities are available for specifying details of the hierarchy within the Draft database for the location of the drawings and their sheets.