Draft Drawing

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Draft Drawing

Menu location
Drafting → Drawing
Workbenches
Draft, Arch
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
-
See also
TechDraw Workbench, Draft Shape2DView

Development of the Drawing Workbench stopped in FreeCAD v0.16, and the new TechDraw Workbench aiming to replace it was introduced in v0.17. Both workbenches are still provided in v0.17, but the Drawing workbench may be removed in future releases.

Description

The Drawing tool allows you to put selected objects on a drawing sheet created with the Drawing Workbench. If no sheet exists in the document, a default one will be created.

This tool works similarly to the Drawing View tool but is optimized for Draft Workbench objects, and can render 2D objects with a face filling. It can handle specific objects such as Draft Dimension and Draft Text, that the Drawing View tool cannot handle.

How to use

  1. Select the objects that you wish to put on a drawing sheet.
  2. Press the Draft Drawing button.

Options

There are no options for this tool. Either it works with the selected objects or not.

Properties

  • DataFill Style: For closed shapes, allows to specify one of the Default Draft fill styles, or use the shape color.
  • DataFont Size: Allows you to specify the font size of texts and dimensions.
  • DataLine Width: Allows you to specify the line width of viewed objects.

Scripting

The Draft Drawing tool can by used in macros and from the python console by using the following function:

Draft.makeDrawingView (object,page)
  • Adds a view of the given object to the given page.
  • Returns the created view object.

Example:

import FreeCAD,Draft
obj = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.ActiveObject
page = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.Page
Draft.makeDrawingView(obj,page)