Drafting

Drafting Elements are strictly two-dimensional: they include Lines, Hotspots, Figures and Drawings. With the exception of Drawings, they do not appear in list views.

Drafting elements have various uses:

Details that you did not wish to model fully with construction tools.

Positioning and drawing aids for the placement of construction elements.

Their outlines can be used to generate complex 3D shapes using the Magic Wand tool.

Decoration purposes or elaborating on details, especially in the Section/Elevation/IE and 3D Document windows or on Details and Worksheets.

The Floor Plan and Section/Elevation/Interior Elevation and 3D Document display of drafting elements depends on the attribute choices made for them in their respective Tool Settings dialog boxes. Attribute sets for Drafting Elements (pencolors, line types, fill types) are managed from the dialog boxes in Options > Element Attributes.

For faster display or output, the 2D appearance of some of the attributes can be modified using the commands at View > On-Screen View Options.

Topics in this section:

Lines

Hotspots

Figures

Drawings in Model Views

See also:

Fills

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