KOMPAS-3D v23

There are two radically different ways to create a parametric image.

•Programming or interactive generation of an image directly during drawing. In a number of CAD systems, an image can be drawn with simultaneous setting of a construction law which however cannot be changed later in case of an error (the overall construction would have to be deleted and started anew), or such a change would be quite difficult to make.

•Application of constraints to objects of a previously drawn image of a node or a part, in any order, without following a certain sequence. In this case, arbitrary change of the image, with no need for re-constructions anew, is possible.

In KOMPAS-3D, the second method of image parameterization is implemented. Such parametrization is called variational.

While working in a 3D element drawing, fragment or sketch, you can apply various dimensional (linear, angular, radial or diameter) and geometrical (parallelism, perpendicularity, tangency, point belonging to a curve, point fixing, etc.) constraints to objects of images.