Insert Draft

 

This command creates a draft feature about selected entities. You can select parting line features if they exist. You can also draft about a neutral plane, edges or faces. The feature will originate at the selected entities and draft toward the direction normal to the reference plane.  If you pick a face to draft about, the Draft side option is disabled and ALL faces in the shell are drafted.  Drafting about a face has its own side definition

 

 

Required Inputs

 

• Draft about - Select the entities to draft about. The type of entities will determine the type of draft created.

• Draft angle - Specify the draft angle.

• Ref plane - Select the reference plane (datum plane or face) whose Z-axis will determine the draft direction.

 

Options Tab

 

Faces

Select the faces to draft or middle-click for all possible faces.

 

Recompute Fillets

When this box is checked, the command searches for all fillet faces adjacent to the draft faces (and tangent to them) and removes them.  It then performs the draft, closes the gaps and attempts to recompute the fillets.  Fillet faces are not drafted if selected but will be recomputed if this option is checked.

 

Draft side

If a datum plane is selected for the Draft about input (see above), use this option to specify which side to draft. The figure below illustrates this option.  

 

• Top - Draft the top side only

• Bottom - Draft the bottom side only.

• Split - Split the selected faces and draft both the top and bottom sides.

• Neutral - Apply draft to the entire face. The draft plane(s) pivots about the neutral parting lines, plane, or edge.

 

 

Advanced Tab

 

Add Draft

Use this option to create a draft angle attribute and attach it to a face. The attribute controls the draft for that face. This is the same as using the Attach Face Draft Angle Attribute command.

 

1. Select a face to attach the draft angle attribute to.

2. Specify the draft angle.
   
   The draft angle attribute symbol will be displayed and attached to the selected.

 

Delete Draft

Use this option to delete a draft angle attribute created with the Add Draft option above or the Attach Draft Angle Attribute command.

 

• Select the symbol representing the draft angle attribute to delete.

 

 

 

Inquire Face

 

Checks faces to determine if they meet a given draft angle based on an extract direction. Curves on the face(s) are created to indicate the region of the face that is less than the given draft angle. Uses the Variable option (see below).

 

Required Inputs

 

• Faces - Select the face(s) to check.

• Draft angle - Specify the draft angle.

• Ref plane - Select the datum plane or face whose Z-axis determines the extract direction.

 

Optional Inputs

 

• Variable - Assigns the queried values to variables and logs them to the active part's history. This contributes to the "family-of-parts" functionality by allowing the part to be driven during a history regen by variables derived from queried distances and angles.

 

 

 

Mold & Die Tool Tab

 

Create a draft angle attribute and attach it to a face. The attribute controls the draft for that face.

 

Required Inputs

 

• Face - Select a face to attach the draft angle attribute to.

• Angle - Specify the draft angle. The draft angle attribute symbol will be displayed and attached to the selected face.

     

 

 

Mold & Die Tool Tab

 

Deletes a draft angle attribute created with the Attach Draft Angle Attribute command (see above).

 

• Select the symbol representing the draft angle attribute to delete.

 

 

 

Mold & Die Tool Tab

 

Use this command to check for undercut draft regions in a mold design core or cavity.  Draft that is considered undercut based on the mold pull direction and draft angle will cause the mold to lock and should be avoided.

 

The undercut regions will be displayed in red.  The border line regions (those that are on the edge of being undercut) are displayed in white. This command only checks for undercuts and is not logged to the part history.  The display results are removed when the command is terminated.

 

Required Inputs

 

• Face - Select the faces to check or middle-click to check all faces.

• Direction - Specify the mold pull direction to check for or middle-click to use the Z direction of the default world XY plane.  Undercut regions are defined by this direction.

 

Options Tab (Angles)

 

• Rotate X, Rotate Y - Use these sliders to alter the mold pull direction.  The results are displayed dynamically.

• Draft Angle - Enter the draft angle to check for.  Regions that exceed this value will be considered violations and will be displayed as such.

• Contrast - Use this slider to adjust the contrast of the analysis results.