Drawings Overview

You can create 2D drawings of the 3D solid parts and assemblies you design. Parts, assemblies, and drawings are linked documents; any changes that you make to the part or assembly change the drawing document.

Generally, a drawing consists of several views generated from the model. Views can also be created from existing views. For example, a section view is created from an existing drawing view.

Topics about drawings include:

• Setting options

• Opening a drawing

• Creating a Drawing

• Customizing Sheet Formats

• 2D sketching in drawings

• Drawing Documents

• Creating standard views (model views and standard 3 views)

• Creating derived views, such as detail, section, projected, broken, and so on

• Aligning and displaying views

• Saving a drawing

• Printing and sending drawings

Dimensions, notes, datums, geometric tolerances, and other annotations are discussed in Detailing.