Generative Drafting

Overview

Conventions

What's New

Getting Started

Defining the Drawing Sheet

Part Drawing

Opening a Part

Creating a Front View

Creating a Projection View

Creating a Section View

Creating a Detail View

Creating a Section Cut

Assembly Drawing

Opening an Assembly

Creating a Frame and a Title Block

Creating Views via the Wizard

Creating a Section View

Overloading Element Properties

Generating Balloons and a Bill of Material

Creating an Isometric View and Changing its Properties

User Tasks

Basic Tasks

Drawing Management

Creating a New Drawing

Opening a Drawing

Editing Drawing Links

Updating Drawings Via the Batch Monitor

Sheets

Defining a Sheet

Modifying a Sheet

Creating a Frame and a Title Block

Inserting an Image Into a Frame and Title Block

Managing a Background View

View Creation

Before You Begin

Creating a Front View

Creating an Advanced Front View

Creating a Projection View

Creating an Unfolded View

Creating a View from 3D

Creating an Auxiliary View

Creating an Offset Section View / Cut

Creating a Section View / Cut (Planar Surface)

Creating an Aligned Section View / Cut

Creating a Section View / Cut with Profile Defined in 3D

Creating a Detail View / Detail View Profile

Creating a Quick Detail View / Quick Detail View Profile

Creating a Clipping View / Clipping View Profile

Creating an Isometric View

Creating an Exploded View

Creating a Broken View

Creating a Breakout View

Creating Views via the Wizard

View Update Reporting

View Modification

Before you begin

Moving a View

Positioning a View

Positioning a View Independently of its Reference View

Locating Reference/Resulting Views

Isolating Generated Views

Restoring Deleted Generated Elements

Locking a View

Scaling a View

Renaming a View

Modifying a View Projection Plane

Generating a Bill of Material

Generating Balloons on a View

Showing Geometry in Views

Modifying a Callout Graphism

Modifying a Callout Geometry

Overloading Element Properties

Modifying a Pattern

Duplicating Generative Geometry

Modifying a view's links

Applying a view's links to another view

Generative View Styles

Creating a View using Generative View Styles

Switching a View to Another Generative View Style

Applying the Generative Style of a View to Another View

Applying a Generative View Style to a View

Dimension Generation

About Dimension Generation

Generating Dimensions in One Shot

Filtering Dimension Generation

Generating Dimensions Semi-Automatically

Analyzing Generated Dimensions

Positioning Dimensions (View per View)

Analyzing Interfering Dimensions

Driving 3D Constraints via Generated Dimensions

Dimension Manipulation

Creating Associative Thread Dimensions

Technological Feature Dimensions

Before you Begin

Creating Intra-Technological Feature Dimensions

Creating Inter-Technological Feature Dimensions

Annotations

Dress-Up Elements

Properties

Images

Printing

Interoperability

Creating and Modifying Views from a .Model

File Export and Import

Administration Tasks

Before you begin

Administering Generative View Styles and Standards

Setting Generative View Style Parameters

Before you begin

Generate Parameters

View Dress-Up parameters

Drafting Interoperability

Working with ENOVIA LCA

Managing CATDrawing Documents in ENOVIA LCA

Optimal CATIA PLM Usability for Drafting

Working with ENOVIA VPM

Managing CATDrawing Documents in ENOVIA VPM

Optimal CATIA PLM Usability for Drafting

Workbench Description

Menu Bar

Generative Drafting Toolbars

Drawing

Views

Generative View Style

Dimension Generation

CATDrawing Specification Tree Icons

Customizing

Customizing Settings

General

Layout

View

Generation

Geometry

Dimension

Manipulators

Annotation and Dress-Up

Administration

Customizing Toolbars

Glossary

Index