Export to Drafting

Export a Part and Assembly document to the Drafting environment. This creates a Drafting template from the model.

Note: For additional import and export operations see Data Interfaces.

General Interaction

To export a Part and Assembly document to the Drafting environment:

1. In the part/assembly main menu, select File / Export / To Drafting.

2. From the Drafting Templates dialog, select the template according to which the part will be displayed in the sheet, as follows:

3. Click OK to apply the selected drafting template to the open part document. The following dialog is displayed:

The Apply Drafting Templates dialog contains the following areas:

• The Model M-View Tree area (on the left side of the window), automatically displays the active model tree view, as displayed in the M-View tab of the parting document tree view.

• The Template Layout area (on the right side of the window), contains the models that exist in the assigned drafting template.  

Note: The system automatically assigns the active models to models in the Template Layout area on the right. M-Views on the left containing identical names to the views on the right are assigned automatically.

4. From the Model M-View Tree area, select the required model view that you want to assign to the required drafting template view in the Template Layout area on the right and click Assign . The selected model view on the left is assigned to the selected drafting template view on the right, as shown in the example below:

Notes:

• You can click the Delete button to remove a model from the window. You can click the Open button to add another model or to replace a drafting template.

• After the assignment has been performed, when selecting the assigned section M-View, the Switch to 2D Section / Switch to 3D Section toggle button is enabled. You can then toggle these options to create a 3D section view or 2D section view, as required. (In this example, the section M-View will be created in 2D view).

• If the Template Layout area, contains one model only, the selected model on the left will be assigned automatically to the drafting template on the right . If the drafting template contains more than one model, the system automatically assigns, the active model to all of them.

• The same M-View can be assigned to more than one view in the drafting template.   

• Each model branch contains the number of views that have been defined in the template.

• To unassign a model view from the drafting template, select the view and then click the Unassign button.  

5. Click the required option, as follows:

• Click the OK & Open Document icon to save and open the drafting document or click OK to save the drafting document without opening it. The Cimatron E Explorer is displayed. The name of the selected part with the drawing extension is automatically displayed in the name field, as follows:

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6. Click Save. The Drafting document is created and the document name appears in the
   Cimatron E Explorer. If the OK & Open Document icon was selected in step 6. The Drafting document that was created is automatically displayed, as shown in the following example:

Note: The view will be scaled according to the template default (As view's scale or Best fit, as described in Save Sheet as Template).