About 2D Geometry Creation

The Interactive Drafting workbench enables you to create 2D geometry.

Before you begin creating 2D geometry, make sure you are familiar with the following concepts:

Note the following points:


  • Construction elements contained in 2D geometry are displayed only in the active view.
  • In order to help ensure that 2D geometry is not altered once it has been created, geometry edition is only allowed in the active view. Therefore, if you want to edit or move 2D geometry, you need to activate the view which contains the geometry. You can prevent 2D geometry from being inopportunely moved (and distorted) in active views by unselecting Allow direct manipulation from Tools > Options > Mechanical > Drafting > Geometry tab.
  • You can create as many 2D geometry elements of a given type as needed by double-clicking the appropriate icon (instead of single-clicking it).
  • While creating 2D geometry, you can create detected constraints automatically by activating the Create Detected Constraints icon in the Tools toolbar. You can view the created constraints by activating the Show Constraints icon.
Important: In this case, note that if you create 2D geometrical elements with a common point, no constraint will be detected for this construction point, as it is unique. For example, say you create a circle and a line starting from the circle center as shown in the example below, the circle center point and the line end point is actually a single point. This is why no coincidence constraint will be created.