Integration of Draft functionality into Multi-Surface Draft
 
 
 

We have consolidated the Draft functionality by merging the Draft/Flange tool into the Multi-Surface Draft tool.

From now on you should try to use the Surfaces > Draft Surfaces > Multi-Surface Draft tool exclusively, as Draft/Flange will eventually be retired.

Terminology

Draft/Flange functionality added to Multi-Surface Draft

New Pick Mask feature

We have added a new section to the control window called Pick Mask. It contains check boxes allowing you to turn off the selection of Surface Isoparm, Surface Trim Edge, Curve (not available when Type is set to Normal) and/or Curve-on-surface. This in turn lets you use selection boxes to select only certain types of curves.

Enhanced Control window

In addition to the new options, we have added a section called Surface Structure that contains the Surface Type and Bezier Surfaces options, previously found at the top of the control window.

Draft pull direction

Multi-Surface Draft already uses Vector Options in the control window to determine the direction of the pull vector.

We did not implement the draft vector manipulator from the Draft/Flange tool in Multi-Surface Draft, to be consistent with more recent tools.

Suggested workflow

  1. Choose Surfaces > Draft Surfaces > Multi-Surface Draft to open the control window and set the Pick Mask options, depending on what types of curves you want to select as input.
  2. Box-select all of your curves.
  3. Click the Recalc button to build the draft or flange surfaces.
  4. Adjust the surface parameters through the control window and click Recalc again, or turn on Auto Recalc.