TechDraw Roadmap



The TechDraw workbench is still very much a work in progress. Not all functions are available, and not all functions work correctly. Here is a rough roadmap of areas to be addressed (in no particular order).

Performance
Both phases of the performance improvement subproject have beeen merged into the master branch. In general, drawing generation is much faster, though not instantaneous. Some drawings still take a long time.

Drawing Tools
This includes the ability to add leaders, callouts and detail highlights to Views. The detail highlights will be used in ViewDetail (see below).

ViewSection
The current implementation of ViewSection is buggy and limited. ViewSection will be revised to allow multiple sections based on the same base View, the creation dialog will be improved, and hopefully we'll get the arrows pointing in the right direction finally.

ViewDetail
This is the ability to create a View which enlarges a small portion of a base View. This is possible now to some degree with ViewClip, but it is not easy to use.

Documentation
The wiki entries for TechDraw are very sparse and need to be expanded considerably.

Bug Fixes/Feature Requests
The are a number of bug reports and feature requests in Mantis and the forums. These will all be addressed eventually.

Recent Changes/Known Problems

 * Prints and exports are undersized. The fix has been identified and will be installed shortly.  **Update the fix has been merged into master.
 * The confusing "xDirection" property in Part and Section views is under review.  The goal is to replace it with a simple angular rotation property.
 * The drawing can now be panned by left mouse button click and drag.
 * Mantis issue 2707 (hidden lines) has been addressed.
 * View frames are now larger.