Following are some of the capabilities available when the model is not loaded:
- Save and Open drawings
- Add
- Dimensions
- Annotations
- New views (Empty, Detail)
- New views of parts only (Auxiliary, Projected, Section, Broken-out Section)
- Balloons
- Virtual sharps
- Change
- Scales of sheets or views
- Line Color, Line Style, and Line Thickness of model edges, silhouette edges, and sketch entities for both parts and assemblies
- View alignments
- Crop Views, and Auxiliary and Projected Views
- Balloons
- Select
- Hidden Lines Removed (HLR), Hidden Lines Visible (HLV), and Wireframe in drawings of parts. You can show views in Tangent edge display in drawings of parts or assemblies.
- Imported planes, sketches, origins, and axes
- Section view edges
- Model edges and vertices
- Silhouette edges
- Faces
- Copy, Cut, and Paste views
- Inference, reference, and dimension to model edges, vertices, and center points
- Hide and show edges
- Update the drawing with the Rebuild tool
- Measure
- True reference dimensions
- View temporary axes
- 3D highlighting