Generative Drafting Toolbars

This section describes the various icons of the Generative Drafting workbench. The toolbars are located on each side of the workbench in the default set-up.

A number of toolbars available in the Generative Drafting workbench are actually part of the Interactive Drafting workbench. These toolbars are also listed below but they are documented in the Interactive Drafting User's Guide.

 

Generative Drafting Toolbar Purpose
Drawing Create sheets, views, 2D components and frame title blocks

Views

 Create different kinds of views
Generative View Style Specify the generative view style that should be used when creating views

Dimension Generation

 Generate dimensions and balloons
Interactive Drafting Toolbar Purpose

Dimensioning

 Create all types of dimensions needed for your drawing

Annotations

 Add annotations to existing views by creating them

Dress-Up

 Add dress-up elements on the drawing
Tools Activate display and positioning tools
Tools Palette Use specific options or value fields available for a given command

Geometry Creation

Create geometry

Geometry Modification

 Transform existing 2D elements and add constraints to elements on the drawing

Properties

  
Text Properties Modify the text properties
Graphic Properties Modify the graphic properties of all kind of features
Dimension Properties Modify the dimensions properties
Style Set the style that will be used to create a new object