Use the 3D View

The 3D View Window in Draft allows you to assemble and manipulate Design elements to populate drawing sheets.

This allows you to examine the content of the drawings in 3D view before establishing the view content as a 2D drawing.

However, the 3D View window also offers powerful facilities to enable the manipulation of 2D drawings.

The Display controls allow you to display the list content, add selected components to the 2D View Content list, and remove all items from the list.

1. Select the Show View Content icon to display the View Content form which shows what is in the 2D drawlist.

2. An entry can be removed from the list by right-clicking on it and selecting Remove Selected.

   

   The View Content list shows the elements which have been added to the 2D and 3D Views in Draft.

   Note: The View Content list will not be updated even if Auto Update is set and if the Update 2D Viewlist is unset.

3. Select the Scale icon to display the Scale form:

   

   Scale options allow the Frame to be scaled to the drawing. The Scale form allows you to:

   • Choose whether the scale is shown as a numeric ratio (Metric), or in Architectural or Engineering styles.

   • Select Auto Scale to instruct Draft to calculate a scale so that the elements in the drawlist will just fit within the View. The actual scale will be displayed in the Scale field.

     Alternatively, a value can be typed directly into the text field on the toolbar:

     

     Any changes to scale are reflected immediately on the 2D display.