The second and following part will compare the 3D and Solid Modeling capabilities with Auto Desk Mechanical Desktop and Solid Works. Draft-Pak provided engineers with a computer based handbook packed with screws, nuts, bolts, gears, rivets, springs and other parts. The menu interface is designed to take up a minimum of space, leaving more area for the designer to work in. The same tools are used to edit 2D and wireframe geometry are use to edit solid models.
Some programs clutter the work area with duplicate set of tools to edit similar features.
You can solidify a wireframe model at any time, or do constructions using primitives such as block, cone, cylinder, sphere and torus. You can conduct Boolean operations such as subtract, intersect and union. Extrude, sweep and revolve geometry into a solid. Apply constant and variable fillets, chamfers and blends to solid models. You can dynamically rotate rendered models.