Drawings

Learn about the enhancements made to the drawing environment.

Drawing

Edit Property Fields Enhancement

The Property and Value fields in the Edit Property Fields dialog box now auto expand to the longest text string when inserting a sketch symbol, title block, or border containing a prompted entry.

For more information on prompted entries, see Edit Property Fields, Prompted Texts, Attributes Reference.

Section View Creation Enhancement

When creating a section view, by default, the view is aligned with the parent view. Use the new context menu, Align View, to disable orthographic projection from the base view. You can also use the new View Projection options in the Section View dialog box to control Section View creation.

Note: Holding down the Ctrl key when creating a section view to disable alignment with the parent view continues to be supported.

For more information on creating Section Views, see To Create and Edit Section Views.

Delete View Dialog Box Enhancement

When you delete a view with dependent views, the Delete View dialog box now displays the dependent views by default. This allows you to easily indicate dependent views to keep or delete. By default, each dependent view is set to Yes to delete. To change the setting, click the Delete entry. Previously, you had to click the expand button, to see and change this information.

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For more information on Drawing Views, see To Work with Drawing Views.

Replace Model Reference Dialog Box Enhancement

You can now resize the Replace Model Reference dialog box. This enhancement eliminates the need scroll horizontally and vertically to view the information.

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For more information on Drawing Views, see To Work with Drawings.

Fractional Dimension Enhancement

You can now double click anywhere on a fractional dimension to edit it.

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For more information on editing dimensions, see To Edit Dimensions in Drawings.

Thread Note Enhancement

You can now double-click an internal or external thread note to open the text editor in a drawing file.

Note: After creating a thread note, you must first save the file to open the text editor using double-click.

Example of accessing the text editor from a note applied to the external face of a cylinder:

For more information, see Format Text Reference.

iProperties for Multi Selection Enhancement

The iProperties command is now available for multi selection in the browser.

For more information see To Work with iProperties in Files or Templates.

DWF export

Now you can set All colors as black while exporting a 2D drawing as a DWF file to prevent issues with certain colors.

For more information see To Publish 2D and 3D models to DWF and Share with Reviewers

Browser Transparency Enhancement

Like in assemblies, icons indicating transparency are available in the drawing environment's browser.

For more information on drawing browser see Drawing Browser Reference.