Draft Drawing

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THIS COMMAND IS OBSOLETE
It works with the Drawing Workbench which was deprecated in FreeCAD version 0.17 when the TechDraw Workbench was introduced. Use that workbench and the TechDraw DraftView command instead.

Draft Drawing

Menu location
None
Workbenches
Drawing, Draft, Arch
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
-
See also
TechDraw DraftView

Description

The Draft Drawing command inserts views of selected objects into a drawing page.

This command is similar to the Drawing View command but is optimized for Draft objects. Contrary to that command, it can handle specific objects such as Draft Dimensions and Draft Texts, and it can render faces.

This command is now obsolete. Use the TechDraw Workbench and the TechDraw DraftView command instead.

On the left the selected Draft objects. On the right the created drawing views.

Usage

  1. To use this command in FreeCAD version 0.19 and later you will need to add a button to a custom toolbar. See Interface Customization.
  2. Select one or more objects. A separate view will be created for each object.
  3. Optionally select a Drawing page. If you do not, the view is inserted into the first page in the document. If there are no pages in the document a new page is created.
  4. Press the Draft Drawing button.

Notes

  • The tool will work best with 2D objects from the Draft Workbench or Sketcher Workbench.
  • The selected object can also be an Arch SectionPlane, which will show the elements viewed by that plane.
  • If you select a sheet and the objects already projected on that sheet, the projections will be updated.