The Hatch dialog temporarily disappears, so you can choose a face to color. In the Boundary settings box, click Specify Points. Don't hit OK yet - it's probably greyed out anyway.ģ. You can also change the Style and Orientation. In the dialog box that comes up: in the Type box, select Fill. On the command line, type HATCH and press Enter.Ģ. Revolved - also the REVOLVEDMESH command. They both seem to do the same thing for me. I'm not clear on the difference between this and 2D Solid. In this way, you can create a long polygon of quads all stitched together. The last 2 points now become the 1st and 2nd points of the next side, and you can specify new 3rd and 4th points. After you specify 4 corners, it draws a quad. After you specify 3 corners and press enter, it draws a triangle.
If you go in a circular motion, you get the dreaded butterfly effect. If you're using the mouse, you specify 3 corners of a triangle, or 4 corners of a quadrilateral - but if your specifying a quadrilateral, don't go in a circular motion. This creates a shape with faces, not just a wireframe.
#DRAFTSIGHT 2018 DIMENSIONS TUTORIAL HOW TO#
How to rotate and stretch 3D shapes in 3 dimensions If you are viewing the shape obliquely (from ROLLVIEW or something), you can just move the mouse to the extrusion height you want, and left-click to set it. Either enter a numeric number (positive or negative) for the extrusion height in the Z direction, From the command line, type EXTRUDE and press Enter.Ĥ. It doesn't have to be on the Z=0 plane, but it all has to have the same Z value (that is, parallel to the Z=0 plane.Ģ. How to extrude 3D shapes from a 2D cross sectionġ. M and N are difficult concepts to explain, but they'll make sense when you see them. Mesh - specify four corners of a rubber sheet, and how many segments you want between the corners. You can also make a cube and a square box using the C shortcut after Length or Width. You can select from 9 different shapes:īox - specify Length (+X or RIGHT), Width(+Y or UP), Height (+Z or into screen), and rotation about Z-axis (this is rotation in the 2D plane, with 0 being +X and numbers increasing towards +Y. From the command line, type 3D and press Enter.Ģ. This doesn't put the CCR at (0,0,0), but it does put it in the lower left corner of the drawing area.ġ. A Zoom Fit is automatically executed, so everything shows in the drawing area. You get a 2D view, showing the XY plane. In the dialog box, select View Type -> Defaults. Either type V (short for VIEWS) and press Enter, or select View -> Named Views from the main menu.Ģ. It worked in AutoCAD, and it works in DS too.)ġ. (UPDATE, : Here's an even quicker way, pointed out by an alert reader: type PLAN and press Enter. The dash is important: without the dash, you get the dialog box. That's short for -Views, Orthographic, Top. Here's the really quick way: At the command line, type -V O T. This doesn't return the 3D view to normal. To return the mouse function to normal, press Esc, press Enter, or right-click the mouse. With the left mouse button still down, move the mouse. The mouse cursor changes to two 3D circle thingies.ģ. Hover the mouse over an object in your drawing. The mouse cursor changes to a circle thingy.Ģ. From the main menu, select View -> Constrained Orbit.įrom the command line, type ROLLVIEW and press Enter. You can even view a 2D drawing in 3D! That's kind of funky and not really useful, but it's fun to do once or twice.ġ. There's actually a Z axis on it as well as the X and Y axes, but you won't see it until you start "rolling the view." The CCR will help you maintain your orientation when you're viewing objects in 3D. It's the little X-Y widget in the lower left corner of the Model view when you first start up DraftSight. CCR stands for Cartesian coordinate reference. You'll see the initials "CCR" in a lot of the DraftSight documentation.
#DRAFTSIGHT 2018 DIMENSIONS TUTORIAL FREE#
The free version of DraftSight doesn't let you export the file in a different format. I don't know about MilkShape or UVMapper yet. You can confirm that by exiting and restarting DraftSight, and then reloading the DWG file.īut the 3D doesn't import into Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Express. When you save it as a DWG file, it saves all the 3D data. Unfortunately, right now you can't do much besides play with it inside DraftSight. What can you do with a DraftSight 3D CAD model?
I won't post it as a comment, but if it's useful I will add it to the main text of this article - I'll add your name or ID at the bottom of the article. When you discover something that might be useful here, please send me a comment. If you follow the instructions given here, you'll be able to experiment with 3D in DraftSight and discover new stuff. This is more of a quick reference guide than a tutorial.
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