- Copyright and Trademark Information
- File Operations
- Creating, Opening, and Saving Documents
- Creating a New Design
- Creating a New Drawing Sheet for the Active Design
- Creating a New Design and Associated Drawing Sheet
- Opening an Existing Design or Drawing Sheet
- Opening an Existing Design by Dragging and Dropping
- Inserting a Design by Dragging and Dropping
- Saving a Design
- Saving a Design and Using It as a Template
- Copying a Design
- Archiving a Design
- Sending a Design
- Saving a Version of Your Design
- Saving a Design as Another File Type
- Closing a Design
- Modifying Design Properties
- Adding Custom Properties
- Importing and Exporting
- Importing a Design
- Exporting a Design
- Importing: Supported File Types
- Exporting: Supported File Formats
- Importing a Design by Dragging and Dropping
- Exporting a Design as an Image
- Copying the Contents of the Design Window to Windows Clipboard
- Opening the Parent Document of a Design
- Converter Utility
- Running the Converter
- Copying and Pasting from Other Applications
- Locking and Unlocking Objects
- Printing Drawing Sheets and Designs
- DesignSpark Mechanical File Format
- Creating, Opening, and Saving Documents
- Introduction
- User's Guide
- Getting Started Using DesignSpark Mechanical
- Quick Reference Card
- Mouse and Touch Gestures
- The DesignSpark Mechanical Interface
- DesignSpark Mechanical Objects
- Working with Components
- Creating a Component
- Activating a Component
- Cutting, Copying and Pasting a Component
- Mirroring a Component
- Sorting Objects within a Component
- Renaming a Component
- Deleting a Component
- Flattening Assemblies
- Internal, External, and Independent Components
- Internal Components
- External Components
- Dependent and Independent Components
- Notes About Dependent and Independent Components
- Examples
- Inserting a Component or Assembly
- Making a Component Independent
- Making an Internal Component External
- Making a Copy of an External Component Internal
- Saving a Copy of an External Component
- Lightweight Components
- Working with Faceted Bodies
- Working with Components
- Undo and Redo
- Selecting
- Select Tool and Modes
- Using the Select Tool
- Using the Selection Context Menu
- Clearing a Selection
- Reverting Your Selection
- Selecting by Rolling the Mouse Wheel
- Select Tool Guide
- Clip with Plane Tool
- Clip with Volume Tool
- Filtering the Selection
- Using Box Mode
- Using Lasso Mode
- Using Polygon Mode
- Using Paint Mode
- Using Boundary Mode
- Select Components Mode
- Designing
- Cutting, Copying, and Pasting
- Sketching
- Locking a Base Point
- Changing the Location of a Base Point
- Editing a Sketch
- Toggling Between a Curve and a Construction Curve
- Mirroring in Sketch Mode
- Sketch Ribbon
- Sketch Tool Guide
- Sketch Mini-toolbar
- Sketch Tool Options
- The Sketch Plane
- Move Grid Tool
- Sketch Options
- Sketching with Constraints
- Sketch Tools
- Line Tool
- Rectangle Tool
- Ellipse Tool
- Circle Tool
- Arcs
- Polygon Tool
- Splines
- Point Tool
- Trimming and Modifying
- Face Curve Tool
- Project to Sketch Tool
- Equation Tool
- Working with Sketch Curves in 3D
- Editing Sketches
- Copying a Sketch
- Layout Sketches
- Moving in Two Dimensions
- Dimensional Sketching
- Design Modes
- Editing
- Edit Ribbon Group
- Pulling with the Pull Tool
- Creating and Editing a Solid
- Pull Tool Guides
- Pull Tool Options
- Pull Tool Examples
- Offsetting or Extruding Faces
- Extending or Extruding Surface Edges
- Rounding Edges
- Rounding Between Faces and Surfaces
- Modifying Rounds
- Chamfering Edges
- Extruding Edges
- Pivoting Edges
- Revolving Faces
- Revolving Edges
- Revolving Helices
- Sweeping
- Drafting Faces
- Creating Slots
- Scaling Solids and Surfaces
- Copying Edges and Faces
- Pulling with the Select tool
- Pivoting an Edge with the Select Tool
- Using Measure to Drive Pull
- Move Tool
- Fill Tool
- Blend Tool
- Editing with Annotation Dimensions
- Mathematical Expressions
- Intersecting
- Intersect Ribbon Group
- Combine and Split Tools
- Splitting Solids and Surfaces
- Merging Solids and Surfaces
- Making 3D Curves at the Intersection Between Faces
- Combine Tool Guides
- Combine Options
- Combine Examples
- Using Combine to Merge Solids and Surfaces
- Merging Solids
- Merging Surfaces
- Merging Surface Protrusions
- Capping a Surface with a Plane
- Removing Material From a Solid
- Splitting Bodies and Surfaces
- Splitting a Surface
- Splitting a Solid with a Surface, Plane, or Another Solid
- Split Body Tool
- Splitting Faces or Edges
- Project Tool
- Datum Objects and Relationships
- Bodies
- Dimensions
- Detach
- Checking Geometry
- Changing the Display
- Orienting Designs
- Styles
- Applying Colors
- Line Styles
- Layers Panel
- Applying a Graphics Style
- Applying a Rendering Style
- Displaying Edges
- Painting Display Properties with Style Painter
- Flythrough
- Workspace Windows
- Sketch Grid Styles
- Displaying Workspace Tools
- Showing and Hiding Objects
- Displaying Lightweight Components
- Detailing
- General Detailing Options
- Drawing Sheet Size and Format Options
- Modular Grid Options
- Formatting Note Text
- Annotation
- Annotation Ribbon Group
- Dimension Tool
- Note Tool
- Creating a Note
- Creating a Note Field
- Copying a Note
- Editing a Note
- Fitting Text Within a Note Box
- Adjusting the Text Width
- Adjusting Line and Character Spacing
- Aligning Multiple Notes
- Attaching and Detaching Notes to Other Notes
- Attaching and Detaching Free Notes to Drawing Views
- Displaying the Text of an Annotation and Hiding the Plane
- Creating Circular Notes
- Adding Hyperlinks to Annotations
- Note Leader Tool
- Thread Tool
- Center Marks and Lines
- Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
- Encoding Geometric Tolerances
- ASME and ISO Standards
- What You Need to Encode a GD&T Symbol
- Encoding a GD&T Symbol
- Modifiers
- Multi-Segment Feature Control Frame
- Feature-Relating Tolerance Zone Framework
- Datum Features Symbols for Patterns
- Datum Reference Frame
- Datum Targets
- Datum Targets as Datum Features
- Basic Dimensions
- Creating Symbols from Items in the Tree
- Locking Encoded Features
- Track Encoding
- Track Encoding Example
- Geometric Tolerance Tool
- Datum Symbol Tool
- Datum Target Tool
- Encoding Geometric Tolerances
- Welding Symbols
- Barcode Tool
- Bolt Circle Tool
- Bill of Materials (BOMs) Tool
- Balloon Tool
- Surface Finish Symbols
- Table Tool
- Hole Tables
- Curve Table Tool
- Drawing Sheet Views
- Custom Symbols
- Drawing Sheets
- Measuring and Analyzing
- Customizing DesignSpark Mechanical
- Option Types
- Popular Options
- General Detailing Options
- Drawing Sheet Size and Format Options
- Modular Grid Options
- Limits and Fits Options
- Appearance Options
- Selection Options
- Snap Options
- Units Options
- Navigation Options
- Advanced Options
- File Import and Export Options
- Support File Options
- Quick Access Toolbar Options
- Multitouch Options
- Displaying Workspace Tools
- Configuring Windows
- Customizing a View
- Creating Custom Shortcuts
- Getting Help
- Glossary
Toggling the Display of the Modular Grid for a View
Right-click the view and select Show Modular Grid.
Adjusting the Size of the Modular Grid
Click the grid labels (or end points if labels are not displayed) and drag.
Displaying Grid Information for a Cross-Section View
Select the cross-section view reference plane and set Show Modular Grid Description in the Properties panel to True.
Change Modular grid description label to change text displayed before the coordinates in the label.
You can move the reference plane by changing the value of its label.
Customizing a Grid
Select the grid by clicking on a grid label or end point.
Drag the handles to expand or shrink the grid dynamically.
Modify the following values in the Modular grid section of the Properties panel:
Color: The color of the grid, labels, and the legend axis.
Font: The font and text height used for grid labels. Type the complete name for a font, followed by a comma and the font height in units (mm, in, etc.). You can also click the ... button and select a font and a size in points. The size will be converted to the current units.
Grid interval: The distance between grid lines.
Horizontal text location: Show labels for the bottom of grid lines, the top of grid lines, both, or neither.
Intervals per grid line: The number of rows between each grid line.
Show balloons around grid labels: Show circles around grid labels.
Show baselines only: Select True to only show the baselines. The default is False which shows all grid lines.
Show origin: Show the legend axis on the lower left corner of the view.
Show when at least one direction is parallel to the sheet: Select True to automatically display the grid if the X, Y, or Z axis in the view is parallel to the drawing sheet. Select False if you want to hide the grid in this case.
Vertical text location: Show labels for the left end of grid lines, the right end of grid lines, both, or neither.
Axis labels: Override X, Y, or Z with your own labels.
Negative and positive prefixes: A prefix shown before the distance on a grid label.
Negative, positive, and zero suffixes: A suffix shown after the distance on a grid label.
You can set the defaults for these values by changing the Modular grid options.