With a little work, 2D drawings and sketches can be transferred into the 3D environment. This is usually done if a 2D drawing was imported or was created in 2D and now needs to be 3D. When working in the 2D Drafting mode in a four-view drawing, only the view you are drawing in contains any geometry. Expressions in Solid Master are as easy as clicking in the correct field and typing. Sketches can be dynamically edited by dragging a dimension. These are some of the options of the Fillet tool.
Users can reference existing geometry and call up a calculator if needed.
Just by drawing that vertical yellow line, Solid Master knows that when I select New View, I want a cross section. This image shows different views with a mix of rendering styles - shaded, hidden line and dashed hidden line. In this mode, users can also draw 2D shapes, but now any entity created will show up in all views. 2D geometry can then be extruded into a 3D shape and users can perform numerous operations on it such as cut out holes, add draft and even perform shelling. In this mode, however, none of these commands are parametric, so there is no way to go back into a history tree and redefine the parameters.