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Drawing. Constituents of a drawing |
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Drawing – the basic type of a graphic document in KOMPAS-3D.
A drawing contains a graphic image, marquee, a basic label, a majority surface finish sign, and technical specifications.
Views are used as "containers" for the graphic image. Drawings created in KOMPAS-3D can include up to 2,147,483,647 views. Inside the view, the graphic objects may be placed in one or several layers.
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An image cannot exist outside a layer or a view. That is not applicable to the technical requirements and the majority surface finish sign – they do not belong to any type or layer. |
The view of a drawing may contain the projection of a part (associative view), or an arbitrarily created image (a simple view). A drawing containing associative views is called an associative drawing.
While creating a new drawing, the system automatically forms in it a special system view with zero number, and in the view – a system layer with zero number.
If the user did not create any other views and/or layers, all the objects created in the drawing will be placed into the system view on the system layer.
Therefore, you can start plotting an image immediately after creation of a new drawing, without creation of a view. In this case, drawing will be run "in actual size". To learn about drawing in a scale, see section View Scale.
However, when working in KOMPAS-3D it is strongly recommended to place each image into a separate view. Such an approach offers the following advantages.
•Creation of an image in various scales without manual recalculation of sizes – it is performed automatically, see section View Scale.
•The convenience in composing images on a drawing sheet: each view can be scaled, moved, or rotated fully as an object, see section Position of the view.
•Possibility to form an associative link between the designations of view arrows, lines of cut/cross-section, leader elements and designations of the respective images. This link enables automatic transfer of such data as the character, sheet number, etc. among designations.
These features essentially accelerate creation of assembly drawings, drawings of large-scale objects, and dense drawings.
A drawing may comprise one or several sheets. Geometric characteristics of a drawing sheet – format. It includes the format itself (A1, A2, etc.), as well as multiplicity and orientation.
If a drawing includes several sheets, a proper format can be set for each of them, as well as select the required type of the title block.
