Draw rectangle

Click on a corner point of the rectangle and draw it while holding down the mouse button.

Alt: Ignore snap points

Draw ellipse

Click on the desired center of the ellipse and draw it while holding down the mouse button.

Strg: Draw circle

Alt: Ignore snap points

Draw circular arc

Strg: Only allow multiple of 15° in relation to coordinate axes

Shift: Only allow multiple of 15° in relation to starting angle

Alt: Ignore snaps

i: Invert direction

Draw polygon

In turn, click on the desired corned points of the polygon.

Strg: Only allow multiple of 15° in relation to coordinate axes

Shift: Only allow multiple of 15° in relation to last edge

Example: 90° angle on last edge

Alt: Ignore snap points

Return: Terminate polyline

Draw polygon chain

Strg: Only allow multiple of 15° in relation to coordinate axes

Shift: Only allow multiple of 15° in relation to last edge

Alt: Ignore snap points

Return: Terminate polyline

Freehand drawing:

For straight lines use the polygonal chain.

Line thickness

The line thickness of the paintbrush can be adjusted via the arrow buttons.

Fill in sections

Choose color for painting / Choose erasing color

Switch between different drawing colors and erasing color.

If the color feature has been used in the part creation, now when using the sketch search the result quality can be enhanced by using colors in the drawing.^[a]

Sketch

Result part

Cleanup

Deletes the selected view.

Insert

The button becomes active as soon as data that can be inserted (jpg, gif, png) are found in the temporary storage location.

The procedure is the same as above with Import drawing.

Import drawing

See Section 3.1.6.4.6.4.1, “Create sketch from picture ”.

Draw in reverse

Removes the last action. The button is activated as soon as actions are carried out.

Draw repeatedly

Repeats the last action. The button becomes active as soon as Draw repeatedly was used.