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Drafting module

The drafting module in form·Z, while its initial intention is to support the modeling, it can also be used by itself to create drawings. Modeling and drafting are integrated and you can transport drawing from one to the other without exiting form·Z. Drafting in form·Z offers all the usual drawing tools and in addition unique tools not available in other drafting programs, such as 2D Booleans. It also offers associative dimensioning and hatching, editable line types and weights, both bit-mapped and outline text, and in general all the tools necessary to produce presentation or construction drawings. Some drafting examples are shown below. However, note that the low resolution bitmaps on the web cannot properly reproduce the drawings as they would normally appear when printed on a laser printer or plotter

Bookstore in the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, Ohio, by J. Benjamin Gianni and Brian J. Sell. A perspective view brought in from modeling and a construction detail produced in drafting.
Modeled and drafted with form•Z.


Two construction details produced in drafting.


Conway Farms Recreation Building by Robert Dunn and Gregory S. Randall. Mixing construction details with rendered images, which can also be imported into drafting.

 

 

 

form·Z feature list

Introduction


Interface


Modeling

Primitives
Spherical objects
Metaballs
3D solids and 2D shapes
Patterned polygons
Derivative surfaces, extrusions, enclosures
Parallel objects
Frames

Projection objects
Unfolding
Terrain models
Revolved objects
Helixes
Screws and bolts
Stairs
Sweeps
Draft Sweeps
Skinning
Lofting
S-lofts
Meshed objects
Subdivisions
Moving and disturbing meshes
Deformations
Bending along curves
Morphing
Image based displacements
Rounding
Blending and filleting
Draft angles
Splines and c-curves
C-Meshes
Nurbz
Formula curves and surfaces
Patches
Boolean operations
Trimming, splitting, and stitching
2D and 3D sections
Deriving contours
Lines of intersection
Grouping and ungrouping/Joining and separating
Placing and editing text
Symbols
Editing 3D lines
Converting representations of objects
Extracting controls
Inquiring and measuring
Repairing objects and projects
Moving, rotating, resizing, and mirroring
Clones
Attaching
Replace
Inserting
Deleting

Drafting


Rendering


Special features

Extensive import/export
Panoramic views
Straight up perspectives
View matching
Walk through animation
Rapid prototyping
2D/3D digitizing

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