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SolidZone Draft
The Zone Draft command enables you to add a draft angle to one or more faces of a solid. The corresponding drive dimension is also added.
This command is particularly indicated in all those situations in which you need to add a draft angle to complex models and "a posteriori" i.e. to a part that has already been created (as an example, at the very end of the design process) and especially to static solids imported from other environments. If you want to add the draft angle during the ordinary construction of a part rather than at the end, you can as well use the Draft Angle command.
In the Draft constraint drop-down list, you can choose two different drafting methods:
| Strong | when this method is selected, the applied draft will be closer to the specified angle along the whole extension of the selected entities. This option is more suitable for mechanical parts. |
| Weak | when this option is selected, the applied draft will be close to the specified angle near the fixed boundaries and looser as you move farther from them. This option is more suitable for industrial design. |
Once you have selected the faces you want to apply the draft angle to (please note that, if you select the Chain check box, all the faces having tangency continuity with the one you picked will be automatically selected), you will have to select the Direction about which the angle is to be applied and to define the Angle itself.
Like in Advanced GSM, a set of options is provided to manage the shape of the controlled modification, defining parameters like stiffness, roundness and bulging. Another set of options is provided to manage the precision of the resulting entities.
| Restoring selections after an interruption If you interrupt the Zone Draft command, your selections and settings are not lost: they are "frozen" in order to enable you to use them again without having to repeat them all, which might take a long time, at least in complex situations. Next time you start the Zone Draft command, in fact, the Restore Selection button (  ) will be displayed on top of the selection list. If you select Restore Selection button ( ), all the selections you made and the settings you defined last time you used the command will be restored, enabling you to go on with no need to repeat those selections/settings.When the command is started with some pre-selected entities, if you click the Restore Selection button you will be asked to confirm restoring the frozen command selections, thus resetting the current selection. |
A set of Quality Checks commands is also available.
