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• Select Items
The Select items button in the Right Toolchest is used to select
drawing views, sketched entities, dimensions, notes, and so on from the
drawing views.
• Line
The Line option in the Sketch menu in the menu bar or the Create 2
point lines button from the Right Toolchest is used to create line
segments.
• Circle
The Circle option or the Create circle button is used to create circles.
• Arc
The Arc option or the Create an arc by 3 points or tangent to an entity at
its endpoint button is used to create arcs.
• Chain
The Enable sketching chain button is used when the object you want to
draw consists of more than one entity. You can create the object as a chain
by choosing this button and then drawing the entities by using the required
buttons.
• Corner
• Bound
• Transforming the Draft Entities
To translate or move the draft entities, choose Edit > Transform. The cascaded
menu is displayed as shown in the figure. The options in this cascaded menu are
discussed next.
• Translate
• Translate and Copy
• Rotate
• Rotate and Copy
Cascaded menu of
• Rescale Translate option in
Edit menu
• Mirror
• Stretch
• Grouping the Entities
A draft entity can be grouped with other draft entity, with a note, a geometric
tolerance (gtol), or a dimension. In Pro/ENGINEER, the note, gtol, and dimensions
are called detail items. After grouping the draft entities, any operation applied on any
one of them is applied to the grouped entity also. The options to group can be
invoked by choosing Edit > Group. The cascaded menu is displayed as shown in the
figure.
• Draft Group
• Set Default Relate View
• Unset Default Relate View Cascaded menu of
• Relate to View Group option in Edit
menu
• Relate to Object
• Drafting Using the Drawing Views
You can use the generated drawing views to create an entity or the whole drawing
view. To use a generated drawing view, choose Sketch > Edge. The cascaded menu
is displayed with two options; Use and Offset.
• Use
The Use option is selected to draw a copy of the selected edge in the drawing view.
This option will be available only when you have at least one drawing view in the
current drawing sheet and if it is selected.
• Offset
When you choose this option from the cascaded menu, the
OFFSET OPER menu is displayed as shown in the figure.
There are two options in this menu. The Single Ent option is
used to select a single entity from the drawing view. The Ent
Chain option is used to select a chain of entities from the
drawing view. OFFSET OPER
menu
• Converting a Generated View to a Draft View
To convert a generated view to a draft view, choose Edit > Convert to Draft Entities
from the menu bar. After converting a generated view to a draft view, all the objects in
the view are converted to individual entities. This option is available only when the
drawing view is selected. When you choose this option, the SNAPSHOT menu is
displayed as shown in the figure.
SNAPSHOT menu
User-Defined Drawing Formats
Sometimes you may need to create a user-defined
drawing format that is specifically designed as per your
requirements. Choose the Create a new object button
to display the New dialog box. In this dialog box, select
the Format radio button from the Type area and then
specify the name of the format in the Name edit box to
proceed for creating the user-defined format. When you
choose OK, the New Format dialog box is displayed.
3. If you erase a drawing view on one sheet, it can be resumed on the other
sheet.
Creating Tables in Drawing Mode
You can easily create any kind of tabular representation in Drawing
mode by using the options available in the cascaded menu that is
displayed when you choose Table > Insert from the menu bar. The
cascaded menu is displayed as shown in the figure.
Cascaded menu
• Table
• Table From File
• Column
• Row
Using the Assembly Bill Of Material in the Drawings
The Bill Of Material (BOM) is a representation of the components and their
parameters that are used in the assembly. In Pro/ENGINEER there are two methods
to create the BOM.
g. Enter the text in the title block and add balloons to the drawing view. The
drawing sheet after placing the BOM and adding the balloons should look
similar to the one shown in Figure D.
e. Define the repeat region and then enter the report symbols, see Figure C.
Figure D The drawing view of the Figure E The drawing view of the
assembly showing the BOM and balloons assembly showing the title block, balloons,
and the BOM
Exercise 1
Create a format of size A and then retrieve it in the Report mode to place the top,
front, and an exploded isometric view of the Cross Head assembly created in
Exercise 1 of Chapter 9. Add the associative assembly BOM and the balloons to the
drawing view as shown in Figure A. (Estimated time: 45 min)