Template:Draft Tools/pt

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===Drawing objects===

These are tools for creating objects.

• Line: Draws a line segment between 2 points
• Wire: Draws a line made of multiple line segments (polyline)
• Circle: Draws a circle from center and radius
• Arc: Draws an arc segment from center, radius, start angle and end angle
• Ellipse: Draws an ellipse from two corner points
• Polygon: Draws a regular polygon from a center and a radius
• Rectangle: Draws a rectangle from 2 opposite points
• Text: Draws a multi-line text annotation
• Dimension: Draws a dimension annotation
• BSpline: Draws a B-Spline from a series of points
• Point: Inserts a point object
• ShapeString: The ShapeString tool inserts a compound shape representing a text string at a given point in the current document
• Facebinder: Creates a new object from selected faces on existing objects
• Bezier Curve: Draws a Bezier curve from a series of points

Modifying objects

These are tools for modifying existing objects. They work on selected objects, but if no object is selected, you will be invited to select one.

• Move: Moves object(s) from one location to another
• Rotate: Rotates object(s) from a start angle to an end angle
• Offset: Moves segments of an object about a certain distance
• Trim/Extend (Trimex): Trims or extends an object
• Upgrade: Joins objects into a higher-level object
• Downgrade: Explodes objects into lower-level objects
• Scale: Scales selected object(s) around a base point
• Drawing: Writes selected objects to a Drawing sheet
• Edit: Edits a selected object
• Wire to BSpline: Converts a wire to a BSpline and vice-versa
• Add point: Adds a point to a wire or BSpline
• Delete point: Deletes a point from a wire or BSpline
• Shape 2D View: Creates a 2D object which is a flattened 2D view of another 3D object
• Draft to Sketch: Converts a Draft object to Sketch and vice-versa
• Array: Creates a polar or rectangular array from selected objects
• Path Array: Creates an array of objects by placing the copies along a path
• Clone: Clones the selected objects

Utility tools

Additional tools available via right-click context menu, depending on the selected objects.

• Set working plane: Sets a working plane from a standard view or a selected face
• Finish line: Ends the drawing of the current wire or bspline, without closing it
• Close line: Ends the drawing of the current wire or bspline, and closes it
• Undo line: Undoes the last segment of a line
• Toggle construction mode: Toggles the Draft construction mode on/off
• Toggle continue mode: Toggles the Draft continue mode on/off
• Apply style: Applies the current style and color to selected objects
• Toggle display mode: Switches the display mode of selected objects between "flat lines" and "wireframe"
• Add to group: Quickly adds selected objects to an existing group
• Select group contents: Selects the contents of a selected group
• Toggle snap: Toggles object snapping on/off
• Toggle grid: Toggles the grid on/off
• Show snap bar: Shows/hides the snapping toolbar
• Heal: Heals problematic Draft objects found in very old files
• Flip Dimension: Flips the orientation of the text of a dimension
• VisGroup: Creates a VisGroup in the current document