Drawings

Vectorized CAD drawings can be generated from model views using basic configuration options.

Creating a drawing

Before creating a drawing, open a model and use the Views Panel to define one or more views of your model(s). Once the view is created and these model changes have been published, you can generate 2D vectorized drawings from these views. To generate the drawings, click the Generate Drawings button in the middle of the screen.

This will open a list of all views you can generate drawings for, optionally grouped by model and/or label. Select the views you want to generate drawings for.

A view in the 3D model will only show up in this list if it contains a section box. This is required because the generator needs to know the direction and the depth of the view.

Optionally, click the Configuration button in the bottom-left corner to set up basic configurations of what these drawings should looks like. You can choose whether or not to show automatically generated dimensions, door/window tags, grids and room, and customize section hatches and dimension styles. In the current iteration of this feature, section hatches are generally defined for all object types.

Once configured, click the Save Configuration and then the Generate Drawings button in the bottom-right corner of the dialog. This will start the drawing generation process.

Managing drawings

Once you have created a set of drawings, they will appear in the drawings tab. To create more drawings, click the green + button in the top left corner (1). The top right-corner contains some options to sort or filter your drawings, or to switch to a list view (2).

With a drawing selected, you have the option to:

• Open the drawing (3),

• Update the drawing (4). This will always reference the last public version of the models used in the drawing,

• Delete the drawing (5),

• Export the drawing to .dwg (6).

Modifying a drawing

Open a drawing by double-clicking it. This opens the drawing in a new tab in the user interface as outlined below. You will find a drawing picker in the top-left corner to easily switch between drawings (1). In the top-right corner you will find undo and redo actions (2), as well as a button to display the Inspect Panel, showing the properties and attributes of your current selection (3).

The bottom right corner displays the help center with options to contact support or report a bug.

The bottom toolbar displays a basic set of functions to further annotate or alter your drawing:

• Pan mode (5)

• Zoom to Fit (6)

• Add dimensions (7)

• Add text (8)

• Delete objects (9)

• Enable/disable Ortho mode (10)

• Enable/disable snapping (11)

Note that drawings in Qonic are always output from the 3D model. This means that modifying the drawing (e.g. deleting a wall) will not result in this wall being deleted from the 3D model.

Changes made to the drawings are automatically saved and visible to other project members.