A drawing the workshop can work from.

Right-click a solid or a surface body in the model tree and choose Add to drawing, or pick it from the Models list on the Drawings tab. A front view goes on the active sheet and the tab opens. Sketches with visible geometry can go on a sheet too, beside solids and surfaces.

• Each sheet keeps its own models, views and notes; hide a part on one sheet and the others are untouched.
• A scanned mesh or point cloud needs rebuilding as CAD first, in Features, Surface or Design: a manufacturing drawing measures real features.

Place a base view from the front, top, right, back, bottom, left or isometric. Choose Project, move the pointer above, below or beside it and click: the sheet’s first-angle or third-angle convention sets which view lands there, and projected views stay in line with their parent.

• Drag views on the paper with alignment guides; hold Shift to place one freely.
• Each view has its own scale, or follows the sheet’s.
• The Views tree switches hidden lines, centre marks, captions and each dimension on or off, view by view.

Section cuts the model with a plane and hatches the cut, with the cutting line and its arrows on the parent view; show the geometry behind the cut or only the cut itself. Detail enlarges a small area of a view without changing the sheet’s scale. Broken shortens a long part on the sheet, while its sizes keep their true values.

With Auto dim, pick two features for a spacing, or one circle or arc for its diameter or radius; move above or beside them to choose width or height, and click to place it. Or choose Horizontal, Vertical, Aligned, Diameter, Radius or Angle yourself. Arrange then spaces the labels round their views, shorter dimensions nearer the part.

• Tolerances on each dimension: plus and minus, upper and lower deviations, or limits.
• A general tolerance goes in the title block; it never stands in for one a dimension needs.
• To change a size, change the model: the drawing follows.

Pick an origin in a view, tick the holes to list and name them, and place a table of their X and Y positions and diameters; it updates from the geometry. Ordinate dimensions measure from the same origin, so a plate full of holes stays readable without crossing dimension lines.

Attach a thread callout to a round feature and choose the family, size, pitch or threads per inch, length, hand and class: metric coarse and fine, Unified, Whitworth, BA, ACME and pipe threads, or a callout of your own.

Name datum features on surfaces, axes and centre planes, then add tolerance frames with their characteristic, zone and datum references in order. A frame that names a datum you later remove is reported, not left silently wrong.

Place free notes, notes with a leader to a feature, and centre marks. Tools › Workshop adds surface-finish symbols with their roughness and material removal, and edge-treatment symbols for chamfers, radii and deburring.

• Keep cleaning, finishing and inspection notes in a note library, and load it on the next job.

Choose the paper (ISO A4 to A0, ANSI A to E, Letter, Legal or a size of your own), its orientation and scale, and first-angle or third-angle projection, shown with its symbol. A document can hold several sheets; rename, duplicate, reorder or remove them from their tabs.

• Edit the title block with text, fields, lines, boxes and your logo, starting from a compact, manufacturing or review layout.
• Save a layout to reuse it, or make it the default for every new drawing. It is kept outside the program, so an upgrade keeps it.

The sheets are saved in the .tform document with the model, still editable. Export the active sheet as a vector PDF or a PNG picture, or every sheet as one PDF in their order. An existing file is only replaced when you say so.

Check drawing lists dimensions and annotations that have lost their feature, title-block fields still empty, and labels or views that overlap, with errors and warnings kept apart.

Change the part in Design and the linked views refresh, keeping where they sit. Review lists every value that moved and every attachment that needs a new feature, before and after; reattach, check, then acknowledge. Nothing is guessed: an edge that has gone is reported, not swapped for the nearest one.

• Line up a picture of an original drawing under the sheet, calibrated from two points, then compare the sizes recorded from it with the ones the model gives.
• Record the revision and reviewer and write a frozen issued revision, which can be verified later.
• An AI assistant can do all of it through Tesselform’s MCP server, with the Automation module.