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CATIA Interactive Drafting is a highly productive, intuitive, interactive drafting system that can be used in a standalone, 2D CAD environment within a CATIA backbone system. It also expands the CATIA Generative Drafting product with both integrated 2D interactive functionality and an advanced production environment for the dress-up and annotation of drawings. |
This provides an easy and smooth evolution from 2D- to 3D-based design methodologies. Complementing an existing CATIA V4 installation, Interactive Drafting benefits from upward compatibility with Version 4, making it possible to browse or complete in V5, drawings started with V4. |
2D design capabilities - CATIA Interactive Drafting 1 (ID1) offers a productive 2D design environment that includes dynamic sketching, variational solving with constraint management and explicit geometry creation. The drawing copilot accelerates the creation of 2D geometry, which auto-detects geometric conditions on existing geometry, either created with CATIA Interactive Drafting 1 (ID1) or generated with the CATIA Generative Drafting products.
Integrated dimensioning - Quick dimensioning creation and modification capabilities are based on a smart user interface, including automated geometry recognition, contextual menus, direct manipulation, and mouse position. A comprehensive set of dimension parameters enables a variety of dimension types and representations. Dimensions can also be used as dimensional constraints to modify the 2D geometry.
Associative annotations for 2D Views - A full set of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing features (GD&Ts), (datum features and datum target) are provided. Additional annotations such as balloons, roughness symbols and notes with word processing capabilities such as auto-wrapping and complex formatting are also included. Intuitive WYSIWYG and 'edit in place' features speed the creation of drawing notes. |
