PartDesign Draft

Description
The PartDesign Draft tool creates angular draft on the selected faces of an object. It adds a Draft object to the document with its corresponding representation in the Tree view.

Add a draft

 * 1) Optionally activate the Body to apply the Draft to.
 * 2) Select one or more faces of the Body.
 * 3) There are several ways to invoke the tool:
 * 4) * Press the button.
 * 5) * Select the option from the menu.
 * 6) If there is no active Body, and there are two or more Bodies in the document, the  dialog will open and prompt you to activate one. If there is a single Body it will be activated automatically.
 * 7) The  task panel opens. See Options for more information.
 * 8) Press the  button to finish.


 * Remember:
 * Since there must be at least one face for the feature, the last remaining face in the list cannot be removed.

Edit a draft

 * 1) Do one of the following:
 * 2) * Double-click the Draft object in the Tree view.
 * 3) * Right-click the Draft object in the Tree view and select from the context menu.
 * 4) The  task panel opens. See Options for more information.
 * 5) Press the  button to finish.

Options

 * : Add faces to the selection by pressing the button and selecting more faces.
 * : Choose a way to remove faces from the selection:
 * Select one or more faces in the list and press the key or right-click the list and select  from the context menu.
 * Press the button. All previously selected faces are highlighted in purple. Select each face to be removed.
 * : Set the Draft angle either by entering a value or by clicking the up/down arrows.
 * : Set the the neutral plane by pressing the button and selecting the plane that must not change dimensionally.
 * : Set the the pull direction by pressing the button, then select an edge. Pull Direction is only effective if the Neutral Plane has been set. Results can be unpredictable.
 * : Invert the pull direction by checking the checkbox. This will toggle the draft between positive and negative angles.

Properties
See also: Property editor.

A PartDesign Draft object is derived from a Part Feature object and inherits all its properties. It also has the following additional properties:

Data

 * : Cannot be negative. Default:.
 * : Default:.
 * : Sub-link to the parent feature's list of selected edges and faces.
 * : "Include the base additive/subtractive shape when used in pattern features. If disabled, only the dressed part of the shape is used for patterning". Default:.
 * : Link to the parent feature.
 * : Link to the parent body.
 * : Link to the parent body.


 * : Sub-link to the parent feature's list containing the neutral plane.


 * : "Refine shape (clean up redundant edges) after adding/subtracting". The default value is determined by the preference. See PartDesign Preferences.