Create part drawings in a single step

To accelerate the drawing creation by automatically assigning drawing styles and layouts for the selected parts, drawing processes are used.

Drawing Processes automatically create part drawings (using appropriate drawing styles) and arrange the created details within a drawing (.dwg) or across several drawings. A drawing process will step through all the selected objects, choose a suitable Drawing Style and create a drawing of the object, then move on to the next object. In this way many drawings of many objects can be created quickly and easily.

A drawing process includes a number of sub-processes:

• Selection of parts
• Sorting, selection of an appropriate drawing style based on the object type and model role
• Selection of the appropriate prototype
• Rules for arranging details on the sheet: several drawing scales are tested to find the best fit on the sheet. The actual scales tried are defined within the Process. If multiple sizes are allowed all scales will be tried on the smallest sheet first then all scales on the next sheet size and so on working up. If a single sheet size is selected and none of the scales fit the border the views will be still created at the smallest scale on the given sheet.
• Rules to attached new sheets.
• Automatically naming the file

Drawing Process Manager

All processes are available in the Drawing Process Manager . New processes can be created and existing processes can be modified.