Operation Manual

Projecting objects | 205
You can draw an object in a projected drawing mode, or you can project an object onto a drawing plane. You can also unproject an object
from a drawing plane; this reconstructs the object as it would appear in an orthographic view.
To display or hide the Drawing Plane toolbar
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Click View Toolbars Drawing plane.
A check mark beside the Drawing plane command indicates that the Drawing plane toolbar is displayed.
To choose a preset drawing profile
• From the Drawing profiles list box on the Drawing plane toolbar, choose one of the following preset drawing profiles:
• Cabinet oblique (0, 90, 60)
• Cavalier oblique (0,90,45)
• Dimetric (37,90,37)
• Dimetric (16,90,37)
• Dimetric (7,90,42)
• Dimetric (15,90,15)
• Isometric (30,90,30)
• Trimetric (12,90,23)
• Trimetric (5,90,30)
• Trimetric (45,90,7)
• Trimetric (54,90,17)
To choose a drawing plane
• On the Drawing plane toolbar, choose one of the following drawing planes:
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Orthographic
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Top
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Front
•
Right
To draw an object in a projected drawing mode
1 From the Drawing profiles list box on the Drawing plane toolbar, choose a drawing profile.
2 On the Drawing plane toolbar, choose the Top, Front, or Rightdrawing plane.
3 Draw an object.
To project an object onto a drawing plane
1 Select an object.
2
Click Object Transformations Project.
3 In the Transformations docker, choose Project from the list box.
4 In the Plane area, click one of the following buttons:
• Top — projects the object onto the top plane
• Front — projects the object onto the front plane
• Right — projects the object onto the right plane
5 To specify an origin point on the drawing around which to project the selected object, do one of the following:
• Type values in the X and Yboxes to specify coordinates along the horizontal and vertical axes.