Thickness of displayed 2D lines.

Apart from color and line style definition, you can also select the thickness of displayed 2D lines. Thickness can be predefined for any 2D layer. By default, layer “Outline” uses thick lines. Line thickness can be selected on various occasions. More specifically, in 2D view creation from 3D (for visible lines by default), for 2D sheet border, weld and tolerance symbols and part of displayed item numbers. Thick lines can be displayed also in file preview, but in this case, such option is convenient rather for 4k resolution, for 196 Dpi.

More legible displaying of auxiliary objects.

All markers (like end-points, intersection markers, circle centers…), direction arrows, temporary lines or circles, detected objects or marked temporary locations are displayed more clearly. Detected objects, corners or construction lines are highlighted in thick lines. These rules are used both in 2D drawing area and in sketching.

Construction lines and temporary leading or transient lines. 

Creation or deleting of construction lines is also conveniently accessible from the pop-up menu, if you click an empty area. If detected, a construction line is highlighted in different color than detected ordinary 2D objects. Whenever you need to define a start point the construction lines are dragged from, you can right-click an end-point of arc or curve, or a line and select tangent direction or direction perpendicular to tangent. If you right-click a highlighted transient line (for instance created at currently detected end-point), you can select to keep the line till the end of the current task. Then, such transient lines are removed automatically. If you right-click a 2D line during location input, you can create a temporary leading line along the detected line. Similarly, as for permanent construction lines, you can also right-click an end-point or midpoint and create a temporary leading line along/perpendicular to tangent direction.

Cursor coordinates, input of 2D location.

Coordinates displayed near the cursor are now clear on white background, in 2D drawing area, sketching and in 3D. If an incorrect location is detected, coordinates background is changed to a red color. If you create a dimension connected to 3D view and the dimension is automatically updatable, coordinates background is green – then, you always see the status of the dimension. Input of 2D location offers a new possibility to snap to text insertion points, so you can easily insert new texts according to existing ones.

View exports from 3D.

Already defined view exports can be easily managed. Moving the cursor over lines of the list of 3D views in the table, corresponding 2D objects are highlighted. As a new feature, you can select removal of an export together with 2D objects. In the 2D drawing area, you can press and hold Ctrl and move over 2D objects. If a 3D view is detected, all objects of the 3D view are highlighted together. Right-click opens a pop-up. Then, you can select 3D view export management, select removal of view export with corresponding 2D objects, move all objects of the detected view and more... Right-clicking an empty area offers you another feature previously available only from a toolbar – highlighting of updatable dimensions, axes or hatches, as well as displaying of correctly or incorrectly updated dimensions. Corresponding objects are highlighted also temporarily, while moving cursor over items in a table.

Drawing of multi-lines, shafts and ellipse.

Multi-lines can be created as 1 or 2 offset lines from a centerline, optionally closed at both ends. As a second option, you can create a poly-line and then, a second line as an offset at a defined distance or dragged dynamically by a cursor. Drawing of shafts or ellipse offers more options than the previous version.

Stretching of 2D objects.

As a new feature, you can stretch also 2D splines, including ellipse. Moreover, you can convert 2D circle or arc into a spline, so it can be later stretched into ellipse.

Printing of 2D objects.

Thickness of printed lines can be defined as previously, by mapping of 2D color to printed thickness. Apart from this, you can also optionally map displayed thickness to printed thickness. A preview of the printed area displays thickness according to printed output, as well as colors according to output (in case of color printing). Method of display of a preview can be easily changed from the icon menu.

Sketching in 3D.

Display of a created solid can be switched from a pop-up menu. Usually, the solid is displayed as transparent in green color – if created contour is correct, or in red color, if the contour cannot be selected automatically. Sometimes, the transparent solid may cause less legible display for 2D drawing. Right-clicking an empty area opens a pop-up menu which offers to turn the display of a transparent solid on/off. If there are multiple objects in a 3D space, and the shaded display is active, you can select whether the edited solid remains only transparent (now, this is by default). During location input, you can select a 3D location. The selected location is projected perpendicularly into the sketching plane. Apart from selecting such input from the menu, you can press and hold Ctrl+Shift while moving the cursor, or press a key ‘Q’. This action switches input automatically to selection of 3D location projected onto a sketching plane. When a solid edge or an edge end-point is detected, location in the sketching plane is marked before it is finally selected. Using Ctrl+Shift while moving a cursor is similar to selection of a rectangle in 2D or sketching between commands (if you want to stretch objects), or in 3D (if you want to detect a sketching plane at a solid). As in these cases, triggering of location projected from 3D can be configured or turned off.