Overview  

Welcome to the 2D Layout for 3D Design User's Guide. This guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the 2D Layout for 3D Design Version 5 product.

This overview provides the following information:

2D Layout for 3D Design in a Nutshell
2D Layout for 3D Design is a new generation product that lets you design 3D models in an advanced 2D drafting-like production environment, enabling you to create layout views based on 2D geometry, while getting the most of other key capabilities such as dress-up, dimensions, annotations, 2D components, use-edges, constraints, and outputs of profiles and planes, for example. Once your design is laid out in 2D sheets and views, you will be able to print it directly or to generate a drawing sheet from it, to add views that will illustrate it.

The 2D Layout for 3D Design User's Guide has been designed to show you how to create layout views of varying levels of complexity.

Before Reading this Guide
Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 5 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 5 products. It also describes the general layout of V5 and the interoperability between workbenches.

You may also like to read the following complementary product guides, for which the appropriate license is required:
  • Interactive Drafting User's Guide: explains how to create drawings of varying levels of complexity.
  • Sketcher User's Guide: explains how to sketch 2D elements.
  

Getting the Most Out of this Guide
To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step Getting Started tutorial. This tutorial will show you how to create a basic layout from scratch, while introducing a few more advanced functionalities such as formulas.

Once you have finished, you should move on to the User Tasks section, which deals with handling layout views and sheets, then creating and modifying the various types of 2D features you need to design your layout.

If you are an administrator, the Administration Tasks section is specifically aimed at you. You will see how to manage and customize standards.

The Workbench Description section, which describes the 2D Layout for 3D Design workbench, and the Customizing section, which explains how to customize the 2D Layout for 3D Design workbench, will also certainly prove useful.

We also suggest that you refer to the Glossary for information on the terms and concepts used throughout this documentation.

  

Accessing Sample Documents
To perform the scenarios, you will be using sample documents contained in the online\lo1ug_C2\samples folder. For more information about this, refer to Accessing Sample Documents in the Infrastructure User's Guide.