Drafting

CimatronE 8.5 Tutorial

 Table of Contents
Frames.............................................................................................................................. 1
Steps to Follow............................................................................................................. 1
View Creation.................................................................................................................. 8
Dimensioning................................................................................................................. 18
Section Line ................................................................................................................... 38
View Attributes.............................................................................................................. 56
Detailed View ................................................................................................................ 63
Surface Roughness......................................................................................................... 67
Geometric Tolerance ..................................................................................................... 71
Order Symbols ............................................................................................................... 72
By Distance ................................................................................................................ 73
Symbolic Text................................................................................................................ 76
Template ........................................................................................................................ 81

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Frames

Drafting Introduction
Using the Cimatron E drafting application it is possible to create part or assembly drawing sheets, composed of
2D views.

Within each drawing there are one or more sheets, to which drafting symbols and annotations can be added and
edited. These drawing sheets contain specific characteristics such as drafting standard, view attributes, frame,
template etc.

In this exercise various drafting concepts will be discussed along side Cimatron E's dynamic capabilities.

Steps to Follow

Below are the steps to follow in this tutorial.

Frames
View Creation
Dimensioning
Section Line
View Attributes
Detailed View
Surface Roughness
Geometric Tolerance
Order Symbols
Symbolic Text
Template

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Open a Drafting Document
Open up the Drafting application within Cimatron E.

The Cimatron drafting application now opens:

The document used in Cimatron E drafting is called a drawing. A drawing with one sheet is created automatically
with the creation of a drafting document.

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Create Sheet
A sheet contains a layout of 2D views of a model, part, or assembly. In addition to 2D geometry created using
the sketcher, drafting symbols and annotations can be added to sheets. An unlimited number of sheets can be
included in a drawing to allow one to arrange numerous views as required.

By default, the new drafting document contains one sheet. This sheet is represented by a leaf on the drafting
tree. To create a new sheet, right click on Drawing within the Drafting Tree and select Create New Sheet, or
use the main menu command Sheet/Create New Sheet.

The drawing contains default drafting standards and view attributes. To view and or change these properties use
either of the following two methods:

1. Right click on ISO in the Drafting Tree and selected Edit. An example is shown below:

2. Select Tools/Preferences from the menu bar. The Preferences Editor window is displayed. Select
Drafting/Drawing and Sheet/Settings. The following is displayed.

If a frame is assigned for sheets, all new sheets created will use the frame. Do not check the Frame checkbox
since a frame will then be manually assigned.

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Select Frame
For each sheet in the drawing, a customized frame standard outline that encloses the contents of the sheet can
be created. This frame contains a title block with engineering information drawing name, and number, designer,
scale, tolerance, etc.

Import a frame to add to the sheet.

Within this option there is the choice either to choose a pre fabricated frame or create a new user defined frame.
Click on the information symbol below for more details:

Expand the sheet in the tree. There is currently no frame defined, as indicated by "NONE".

Either;

• Double click on 'NONE'

• Select Sheet/Frame Settings.

OR

• Right Click on 'NONE' and select 'Frame Settings'.

The following dialogue box now appears:

Clicking on the IT option will show a list of standard frame sizes available from Cimatron IT. For more
information refer to the Online Help.

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Do not choose any of these frames and instead remain in the 'E Frame' option.

Only the 'E Frame' i.e. a Cimatron E Frame can be edited, as will be seen later on in the tutorial.

Select the A2 Frame.

Once the frame is selected the Edit Frame and Save Frame buttons become active.

Press the Apply/Close button in the Frame Settings box.

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Edit
Right click in the A2 frame in the Drafting Tree.

Select Edit Frame.

The frame is now active as is reflected in the color of the boundary.

The Active colors can be set in the Preferences Editor under Drafting/Active_Wireframe_Geometry.

Within the sketcher, various changes to the frame can be made.

Select the offset tool from the Sketcher Toolbar, on the right of the screen, and select the line below:

Click below the original line to place the offset line.

Click the Line tool and create the line circled below:

When editing an E Frame, only the frame itself is affected.

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 Press the Apply button in the Frame Settings box.

Now click on Save Frame and type A2mod.

Select the Apply/Close icon.

The 'A2mod' frame now appears in the Drafting Tree:

Frames are stored in the default file location within the frames directory under
\\Cimatron\CimatronE\Data\frames. If the frame is stored in another directory, click on the Change Directory icon
upon entering the Frame Settings box to select the appropriate directory.

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View Creation

Views
A View is the 2D projection of a model that maintains its associativity to the model. A change made to the part
will be reflected in the View. A view is a projection of a Cimatron E part or assembly file and is created according
to the active UCS.

The View Creation command enables the projection of a Cimatron E part or assembly file.

1. The part from which the view is derived.

2. Select type of projection and set the Part, Section and UCS filters.

3. Scale and rotation parameters and Active Part visibility.

4. Set the position and distance of text, from a view.

5. Reset any visibility changes made and select the required HDL
regeneration mode.

The View Creation dialog is expanded using the expand icon.

For further details regarding Active Parts visibility browse to the View step and click on the word 'Expanding'.

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There are four different types of views with the view creation box:

1. Simple view - a projection of the part. This view type is created by selecting the desired projection, or by
defining the direction of the projection onto another view.
2. Derived view - a view created by projecting an existing view.

3. Section view - a view created by cutting an existing view.

4. Detail view - an enlargement of a specified area of an existing view.

New

Either;

• Click on the View Creation Icon.

• Select Sheet/View Creation from the main menu bar,

OR

• Right-click on 'sheet' in the Data Tree, and select 'New View'

Click the Open Cimatron E Document icon.

Within the Cimatron E Explorer, select the Clip.elt part document (located in the \\Tutorial
Workfiles\Design directory).

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 Expand the simple view projection type (by clicking the arrow shown here), and select ISO.

Scale

Position the view by clicking above the title block. The view is relocated by dragging to the desired location.

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 Change the scale to 2:1 so the view appears as below:

Apply this view.

Once a view has been applied, the projection type cannot be changed. Therefore, it is important that any
necessary changes to the projection type be made before closing the dialog.

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 The name 'Simple 1' under the ISO view is made up of Symbolic Text. This name can be viewed in the
Drafting Tree.

For more information on Symbolic Text, refer to the Online Help.

Positioning
Left click on the ISO view created, and notice how the Derived View icon appears in the View Creation
dialog.

Select the Left View option.

The scale remains 2:1.

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 Place the view in the top left corner of the frame, and the text 10mm below the view.

Apply this view.

Click on the view created i.e. the left view, and then click to the right of the view.

Apply this view.

A Rear view has now been created.

Click on the Left View again and click below the view.

Apply this view.

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A Top view has been created.

If the View Creation dialog is exited, simply double click on the desired view to reopen the View Creation
dialog box, to EDIT in the DERIVED VIEW MODE.

The derived view is aligned with the base view. If either view is moved horizontally, the other will follow.

The derived view is created according to the current drafting standard (ISO). Dragging a new view below the
existing one creates a top view, and Vice-versa. With ANSI, the opposite would happen.

M-View
The M-View (Model View) is a set of parameters and annotations that are grouped together in order to define a
certain characteristics.

Click on the Top view.

If the View Creation dialog is open an inactive, any view in the display area can be clicked to activate the
dialog.

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 In the View Creation dialog click on the M-View icon.

The M-Views dialog box now appears:

Select the M-View1 view and click OK.

Change the views scale to 1:1 and place it to the right of the Top view.

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 Close the View Creation dialog.

This picture was created in the Cimatron Part environment, by rotating the part as necessary, and saving the
resulting view under the M-View tab.

Naming
Rename the views in the Drafting Tree as follows:

In the Drafting Tree, right click on a view and select Rename from the Popup menu.

• Simple 1 = ISO

• Simple 2 = Left
• Simple 3 = Rear
• Simple 4 = Top

The names under each view automatically change due to the default Symbolic Text parameter remaining
unchanged.

There are now four standard views and one M-View view.

To change the default projection for new simple views, select Tools / Preferences / Drafting / View /
Simple_View. In this dialog, it is possible to change the projection type.

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Reposition
Reposition the views so they appear as below:

Open the View Creation dialog and click on a view to activate it.

Drag the views as necessary.

The View names in the above picture were temporarily enlarged for purposes of clarity.

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Dimensioning

Enter
Enter the dimension option by either:

1. Selecting the Dimension icon, from the Drafting Toolbar.

2. Right clicking in the Graphics area and selecting Dimension.

OR

3. Selecting Symbols/Dimension.

The Dimension dialog now appears:

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Active
From the 'Rear' view select the line shown below:

Left click the mouse in the space below the line.

The dimension is now displayed and the dimension dialog becomes active:

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Dialog Box
The dialog box contains many 'hotspots' to establish the parameters for the dimension.

These hotspots are also available by moving the mouse around the dimension itself.

These hotspots are used in all Cimatron E drafting annotations.

You can change the parameters both in the creating and the editing stages.

Parameters
Set the following parameters for the dimension:

In the dialog box select the Tolerance hotspot and set the parameters as follows:

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 Press the Enter key.

Click on the Terminator hotspot indicated below:

Click on the Label dim. hotspot indicated below:

Either Click with the middle mouse button or press the icon to apply this dimension.

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 Apply the following radius:

Click on the image for a Zoomed view of the corner.

Editing
Remove the tolerance parameter, and center the dimension.

To edit the dimension either;

• Double click on the dimension.

OR

• Right click on the dimension and select 'Edit this'

The dimension box now appears.

Click in the Tolerance hotspot and change the 'Uni Tol.' option to 'None'.

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 Click on the Center hotspot:

Change the character size to 7.

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 Pick both dimensions and select the character size from the drop down shown below:

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Default
The Drafting Toolbar now shows a default character size of 7, which will apply to all dimensions created from
now on.

The default character size can also be set in the Preferences Editor by selecting Tools / Preferences / Drafting
/ General / Character_Size.

If the preferences are changed while a drafting tool, such as dimensions, is open, the change will only take
effect AFTER the tool has been exited and reentered.

Change the default character size back to 5.

Also change the size of the dimensions back to 5.

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Font Style
Double click on the 6.00 radius dimension.

Within the dimension dialog, click on the Font Style icon.

From the drop down list choose Times New Roman.

Exit from the Font Style dialog box and the Dimension dialog.

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Arc
Enter the dimensioning function and double click on the following arc from the Top View:

Click on the image for a zoomed view of the arc.

Locate the dimension:

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 Drag the diameter dimension.

When the dimension is vertical, it changes to linear.

Undo the last dimension.

Dimension the radius of the arc.

The radius of the arc, is invoked by clicking once on the circumference, and then positioning the dimension.

Change the terminator to outside, and apply this dimension.

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 Dimension the arc below.

Color
Change the colors of the dimensions below to blue:

Click on the Quick Filter icon.

Depress the Edges and Curves and Views filters.

Drag a box that contains the Top view, and its entities.

The entities are displayed in maroon, showing they are selected.

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 Open the color dialog and select the blue color:

This method can also be used to change the character size of one or more dimensions.

All selected drafting entities change color.

If a new dimension or drafting entity is created now, it will be displayed in black and not blue, as the default
color has not been changed.

The default color is changed by selecting the color dialog from the drafting toolbar (while no entity has been
selected).

Change the default color to red.

The views themselves have not changed color. The modifying of views is carried out in the View attributes
dialog, discussed in the Set step.

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Multiple Editing
Multiple Editing affects the parameters of a group of entities in a single interaction.

Single click on the two dimensions circled below and select Multiple Edit:

The following dimension dialog box appears:

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Editing of both radial dimensions can now take place. Click here for a list of entity parameters that can be edited.

Within the dimension dialog box, set the terminator to outside and edit the terminator style.

The edit group function can also be entered by double clicking an entity and clicking the Edit Entities icon in
the entities Dialog.

Exit.

Position
Zoom into the right hand side of the Left view.

Assign an Horizontal dimension, using the two points shown here.

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 Click and drag the dimension value to the location shown below. The dimension changes from horizontal to
vertical.

Place the dimension as follows.

Red is the current default color for drafting entities.

Exit from the dimension.

Delete the dimension created.

Either;

• Right click on the dimension and select Delete from the Popup menu.

OR

• Single left click on the dimension and press Delete.

Change the default color back to black.

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Base Line
The Base Line Dimension option allows the measurement of the total distance from a starting point in a chain to
the end point. The sub-total of each point picked in the chain is displayed.

At the Right Hand Side of the Left view a Base Line dimension will be created.

Pick two points (circled) to create the dimension below:

Before applying the dimension, click on the Base Line dimension icon.

The dimension is applied.

Now click on the point below:

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 The 11.90 dimension appears, created using the base line.

Apply this dimension.

Chain
The Linear Chain option allows the measurement of a series of individual linear dimensions in a sequence.

On the other side of the Left view, pick two points (circled) to create the dimension below:

Zoom in to pick the lower point.

Before applying the dimension, click on the Chain dimension icon.

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 Now click the top point to create the 9.70 dimension using the Chain effect.

Apply this dimension.

Both the Base Line and Chain dimension options are ONLY available when creating NEW linear dimensions.

Ordinate
Using the Top view, create the following ordinate dimension:

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 Accept the 20.69 dimension and without exiting the dimension dialog, click on the center of the circle
marked below.

The second ordinate dimension is now created.

Click here to see the ordinate dimension dialog.

Click here for an example of how to create automatic ordinates.

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Section Line

Section
The Section Line tool constructs line(s), based on selected Points, facilitating Section creation at a later stage.
Section Lines remain associative to these points regardless of geometry changes.

Click the Section Line icon, or select Symbols/Section Line.

The Section line dialog box now appears and the cursor changes, standing by for the selection of suitable points
for a section line.

Right click on the screen and from the Popup menu select Align section line. The cursor now changes to
the constraints cursor.

This option can also be activated by clicking on the Align Section Line icon in the Section Line dialog box.

Choose the midpoint shown below:

Apply the selection.

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 Pick two points either side of the midpoint, using the vertical constraint.

Close the section line dialog box.

Within the dialog box the hotspots enable editing of Letter and Arrow entities of the section line.

Move
The section line A-A appears as below:

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 The viewing side is determined by the order the points were selected. If the lower point was selected first, the
side would be flipped i.e. the arrow would face the other direction.

The section line can be moved, even after its creation.

This is true only if the section line is horizontal or vertical.

Double click on the section line, to edit it.

Locate the parallel drag parameter.

Drag the point to the right.

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 Now, move the line back to the midpoint. Release the mouse to apply the location, then exit.

Note, how the vertical constraint line appears as the line reaches the point where the 'Align sec line' point was
placed.

Exit the section line function.

View
A new view will now be created.

Open the View creation dialog and click on the section line.

The View creation section line dialog box opens.

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 Expanding the View creation dialog box after selecting a section line, will show the Contour tolerance
parameter.

Prior to generating views, you can define how to treat hidden lines (HDL).

Disabled HDL: Create the view without hidden attributes.

Fast HDL: Create a fast but less accurate view with hidden segments based on the triangulation of the model.
The result is not high quality and silhouette lines are not displayed.

Precise HDL: Create a precise, high-quality view (default).

Should Cimatron E create a simple view as opposed to a section view, adjust the Contour tolerance
parameter as necessary.

The projection options change to Section Only and Section + View.

Section Only projection

Section Only True length

Section + view projection

Section + view True length

Select the 'Section + view - True length' option.

This view includes the lines representing what's "behind" the section.

When placed, the view is automatically created on a horizontal constraint with the section line i.e. aligned with
the section line.

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 Place the view to the right of the section line:

Apply this view.

To break the constraints of this view and place it in a more appropriate position in the frame, apply the
following steps:

Double click on the view.

While keeping the ALT key pressed, drag the view to the bottom left of the frame.

Apply this view.

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Complex

Create the following section line:

Hide the drafting entities for easier viewing.

Create the following three 'Align section line' points:

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 Apply these points.

Click here for a detailed step-by-step guide for creating the section line.

Zoom in for easier selection of the points.

1.

2.

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 3.

4.

5.

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 6.

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 Accept the projection type and place the second section view to the right of 'Section A-A'.

Zoom into section view Section A-A and double click on the hatch.

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 In the Hatch dialog set the following Space and Angle parameters:

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 Apply the changes to the hatch, via the middle mouse button

Still within the hatch function, verify the Add geometry to contour button is selected and select Single
Indication from the drop down menu.

Click in the four closed contours shown below, clicking Apply in the Hatch dialog to accept each selection:

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 Close the hatch dialog box.

The 'Single Indication' option can also be used with closed contour hidden lines.

The section line names can be changed using the same method to change the view names i.e. through the
Drafting Tree as seen in the Naming step.

3D Section
Open the View Creation dialog, select a view and click on the M-View icon.

In the M-Views dialog box select the M-View2 view.

Toggle the Section Projection type to 3D and click OK.

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 Place the 3D Section M-View to the right of the Section B-B.

Edit the hatch spacing of the 3D section to 1mm.

Double click the Top view in the Drawing Tree to edit it.

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 From the View Creation dialog, select the Show/Hide Model symbols icon.

From the Show & Hide Model symbols, select the section line and click OK.

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 Click OK in the View Creation dialog.

The section line used to create the 3D section has been placed on the view.

Note that you can not modify the shape of section line created in the part. You may only change its fonts,
character size etc,.

Derived View
Another way to create a view is by selecting a section view or a view comprising an edge, as seen below.

Open the View Creation dialog.

Press the Edges and Curves filter and depress the Views filter.

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 Pick the Section A-A edge circled below:

Click on the image for a zoomed in view of the edge.

The edge picked corresponds to the edge of the face of the model seen here.

Place the view to the right of the picked edge.

Relocate the view between the section views and name the view 'Derived View'.

A derived view of the edge has now been created.

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View Attributes

Earlier on in the tutorial (the color step in the Dimensioning chapter) the drafting entities were modified. In the
View Attributes chapter views attributes themselves will be changed.

Set
Right-Click on the Left view name in the Drawing Tree, and select Set View Attributes.

In the View Attributes dialog, set the edge parameters as shown.

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 Now the "Model hidden" attribute is checked, all hidden lines will be shown.

The Left view attributes reflect the new parameters.

1. In the View Attributes dialog all attributes with the As Hidden option selected will now use the attributes
from the Model hidden definition.

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 2. In the View Attributes dialog all attributes with the As Visible option selected will now use the attributes
from the Model visible definition.

3. If the None option is selected as a definition, then the attributes are controlled independently.
4. In the Preferences Editor select Drafting / Drawing and Sheet / View Attributes to define the view
attributes of the document.

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Copy
Right-click on the View Attributes branch under 'Left', and select Copy.

Paste the attributes under the Top view.

The following message now appears:

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 Click Yes.

The Reset line attributes option removes all the view's existing attributes and recreates them according to
what is selected in the View Attributes dialog. (Removes all manual changes by the user).

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Modify
Double click the Attributes icon for the Drawing, to open the Global View Attributes dialog.

Set the global attributes as shown.

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The three section views now appear as follows:

Delete
Notice that the Left and Top views have not changed due to their attributes being set individually. These
attributes can however, be deleted.

The following message appears:

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 Click Yes.

The view now returns to the Global attributes set i.e. the default for the models hidden and visible lines, as
seen in the last step

Detailed View

Create
Within the Quick Filter, verify the Edges and Curves filter is turned on and the Views filter is turned off.

Select the following four edges from the Rear view:

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 Change the color of the edges to magenta (as was done in the color step in the dimension chapter):

Create the following detailed view of the Rear view:

Click on the Contour icon from the icons toolbar.

Pick the Rear view.

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 Draw the following sketch:

Exit the sketcher.

Open the View creation dialog and select the circle.

Within the dialog, the only projection option available is the detailed view option.

The cursor changes to the detailed view cursor -

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 Change the scale to 4:1 and place the view as below:

The detailed view has been generated including the new colors set above.

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Surface Roughness

Add
Up until this stage in the tutorial the Dimension drafting entity and various view attributes have been discussed.
Within the drafting environment, there are several other drafting symbols, some of which will be shown in the
following steps.

Click the Surface Roughness icon, or select Symbols/Surface Roughness.

The Surface Roughness dialog box opens.

Click once above the Left view. The surface roughness symbol appears.

Now click once on the view to extend the leader.

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Leader 1
Within the dialog box the leader and its features can be manipulated in several ways.

Click on the 'Without Leader' hotspot in the dialog box.

Click Undo to restore the leader, and exit to create the symbol.

A break point will now be created.

Double-click on the symbol to enter edit mode.

Click the Break Segment parameter on the leader and drag it around the screen.

Use the horizontal and vertical constraint lines to position the point so that the segments form a right angle.

Exit to fix this location.

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Leader 2

Another leader will now be created from the Pick a point parameter.

Return to edit mode and locate the Pick a point parameter.

Click the point.

Click the corner show below:

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 Exit, and notice the new leader added to the symbol.

Lay
Return to edit mode. Within the dialog box locate and click the Lay parameter hotspot.

The Lay option is used to define the shape of the surface.

From the drop down box, select the C icon to define a circular shape, and exit.

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This is the final result of the surface roughness symbol and its leaders.

Exit the Surface roughness dialog.

Geometric Tolerance

Placement
Click on the Geometrical Datum icon.

On the Top view, click on the following line:

Ensure the font is set to 5 and press apply in the Geometrical Datum dialog box

Click on the Geometrical Tolerance icon.

Click on the line below, and click to the right of the view.

In the Geometrical Tolerance dialog box, click on Edit Frame.

Set the following parameters:

Click Apply in the Geometrical Tolerance dialog box.

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Order Symbols

Align
The Align option enables the alignment of two or more drafting entities. Once aligned, if one entity is dragged the
other entity will move accordingly.

Using the Left view create and place the two dimensions circled below:

Click on the image for a zoomed view.

These two dimensions will now be aligned via the Order Symbols function.

Click the Order Symbols icon.

Change the By Pivot Point parameter to Align Horizontal.

Select the two dimensions and Exit.

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 Select a point (circled) to align the dimensions.

Middle mouse click to accept the alignment.

Exit the Order Symbols function.

By Distance

As well as dimensions, other types of drafting entities can be moved or ordered according to selected
parameters.

Click the ID Number icon, or select Symbols/ID Number.

The ID Number dialog box now appears.

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 Locate the first point above and to the right of the Left view.

Locate the second point on the top right corner.

Exit to create the symbol.

The entities will now be moved via a reference point.

Click the Order Symbols icon.

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 Change the Move parameter to Arrange By Distance, and the Align Horizontal parameter to Align
Vertical.

First select the Surface Roughness entity and Second the ID Number.

The entities are placed in order of selection i.e. the first entity selected will be the base dimension and the last
entity selected will be the top dimension. e.g. the Surface Roughness entity will be the positioned as the base
dimension in this case.

Exit.

Set the distance to 30 and Middle mouse click to accept the placement.

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 Clicking Flip Side will position the entities in the opposite direction from each other.

Exit the Order Symbols function.

ID Numbers can also be created automatically as can be seen in the Advanced Drafting Tutorial, under the ID
Number Step.

Symbolic Text

Text
A few details will now be added to the frame.

Zoom into the bottom right corner of the frame.

The File name and Sheet number automatically appear in the Title Box.

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 Enter the edit frame mode.

Right click on the A2mod frame, in the Drafting Tree, and select Edit Frame.

Double click on the drawing name:

The Text dialog box opens.

From the Text dialog box change the character size to 5.

Drag the text as necessary

Select Close in the in Text dialog box.

Select Apply then Apply/Close in the Frame Settings dialog.

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Attach
Click the Text icon, or select Text from the Popup menu.

The Text dialog appears and the cursor changes to the text cursor.

Click below the detailed view:

The Text dialog box becomes active.

Within the dialog box, click on the Open Editor icon

On the right hand side of the Text Editor i.e. the Symbolic Text drop down, click on the Scale option:

The text now appears in the Text editor:

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 Press OK in the Text Editor.

Click on the Attach icon in the Text dialog.

Click the attach cursor on the detailed view and Exit.

Press apply in the Text dialog.

The 4:1 scale now appears.

Edit the scale either in the Text editor OR by selecting underline, so it appears as below:

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Part Name
Enter the edit frame mode.

Open the Text function, and place the 'new' text as shown below:

Open the Text Editor and select %% Part Name from the Symbolic Text drop down.

Type the following text in the Text Editor:

Drag the text as necessary.

Apply the text and close the Text dialog box.

Select Apply then Apply/Close in Frame Settings dialog.

The symbolic text now needs to be attached.

Right click on the A2mod frame and notice, the Attach Symbolic Text option is active.

Select this option.

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 Click on any view in the frame and exit to accept:

The part name now appears:

If further dragging of the text is required, select the Edit Frame option.

Template

Save
Select Sheet/Template/Save sheet as template.

The following message appears:

Click Yes.

In the Drafting templates dialog box, name the template ‘Drafting Exercise’.

This file is by default saved in the Templates directory within Cimatron E.

Each view in the template must have a unique name.

Save the drafting document.

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Load 1
Open the Template.elt file.

Select File/Export/To Drafting.

The Drafting Templates dialog box appears.

Select the Drafting Exercise.tpl template and click OK.

The Apply Drafting Templates dialog has been loaded.

The Apply Drafting Templates dialog contains the following two main areas:

• The Model M-View Tree area (on the left side of the window), which includes the models to be assigned
to the template. In this case since the model was exported to drafting, the model is already loaded and
assigned.
• The Template Layout area (on the right side of the window), contains the drafting template layout, as
follows:
• Tree Root: Indicates the model name, (when no models are assigned, the default name is Model
0). If the template contains more than one model, each additional model will be assigned a
sequential number, for example, Model 1,
Model 2 and so on.
• Views: These are the saved views that exist in the template, displayed as simple views.
Note that the Section and the Detailed views were not saved in the template.

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Load 2
You may browse (the right browser icon) to load a different drafting template or a different model (the left
browser icon)

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 To unassign a model from the template, click the model on the template layout and select the lower double
arrow icon.

Load 3
Re-assign the model to the template.

Expand the dialog. Note the following two options:

• As view's scale: According to the scale ratio.

• Best fit: Within the boundary box of sketches created under the view as required.

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 Click the Ok & Open dialog icon.

Load 4

The section views and the detail views are not visible, since they were not saved in the template. For this
reason the symbolic text (scale and view name) is not attached, as the views were not loaded into the document.

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 Change the frame to A4 and edit the views so the sheet appears as follows:

Notice that the View Attributes remain.

Save your work and close the drafting application.

More information on templates can be found in the closing steps of the Electrode tutorial.

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