Draftsman을 통한 보드 설계문서 간소화

Draftsman provides an advanced, yet flexible graphical editing environment for creating board design production documents. Based on a dedicated file format and set of drawing tools, the Draftsman drawing system provides an interactive approach to bringing together fabrication and assembly drawings with custom templates, annotations, dimensions, callouts, and notes. It offers automated placement of assembly and fabrication drawings on-demand and includes a wide range of manual drawing tools that can be used to add important details to its multi-page documents.

Place drawing views, objects and automated annotations on single or multi-page Draftsman documents.

Setting Up a Draftsman Document

To start creating a drawing, add a new Draftsman document to the PCB project. To do this, right-click the project's entry in the Projects panel and select Add New to Project » Draftsman Document command from the context menu. The New Document dialog opens from where you can select a predefined document template or the [Default] option that creates a blank A4 document. After clicking OK, a new Draftsman document will appear in the design space.

A newly created Draftsman document will be the active document in the design space.

Options for a Draftsman document are configured in the Properties panel when no object is selected in the design space. The main options for the overall Draftsman document are configured on the General tab of the panel:

• Grid and snapping options (the General region) – configure options of the visible grid and snapping behavior that aids when placing and moving objects on the sheets of a Draftsman document.
• Sourcing options (the Source region) – select the source PCB document for the current document, the default design variant and scale that will be used for newly placed views.
• Units and precision (the Units region) – select primary/secondary units and precision values for the standard measurements and measurement tolerances in the document.

Configure options of the Draftsman document in the Properties panel.

Draftsman documents can include multiple sheets (pages). Sheets can be added to and removed from the current document using the Tools » Add New Sheet and Tools » Remove Sheet commands from the main menus.

The settings for individual sheets in a Draftsman document can be defined on the Page Options tab of the Properties panel when no object is selected in the design space. Configure the Formatting and Size, as well as Margins and Zones for the current sheet. You can select an available Template, choose a Standard sheet size or define a Custom size.

Configure options of individual sheets on the Page Options tab of the Properties panel.

Placing Drawing Views

Draftsman provides a broad range of drawing views: Board Assembly View, Board Fabrication View, Board Section View, Drill Drawing View, Component View, etc.

To place a drawing view, select a command for the required view type from the Place main menu: Board Assembly View, Board Fabrication View, a command from the Additional View menu, or Layer Stack Legend.

Place drawing views using commands from the Place main menu.

• After selecting a view placement command, you will enter the placement mode indicated by a crosshair and the view under the cursor. Click in the design space to place the view.
• After selecting the Board Section View or Board Detail View command, define the position of the cut line on a Board Assembly View or define the detail view area on a placed drawing view of supported type, respectively.

When a drawing view is placed, its properties can be configured in the Properties panel when the view is selected in the design space.

A sheet of a Draftsman document with some placed views: a Board Assembly View and an applied to it Board Section View, a Board Fabrication View and an applied to it Board Detail View.

Dimensioning and Annotating the Drawing

To add important details to drawings, Draftsman provides additional annotation and dimensioning tools:

• To indicate the lengths, sizes, and angles of the object outlines or the distance between objects, dimension graphics may be placed on board views. Use the group of dimension placement commands in the Place main menu to select the required dimension type.
• To add important information to your drawings, additional annotation tools, such as callout, surface finish indicator and automated note list, are provided. Use the commands of the Place » Annotation menu from the main menus to select the required annotation tool.
• To place basic, free-form drawing elements in a drawing document, a range of graphical element tools is also provided. Use the group of graphical object placement commands in the Place main menu to select the required object type.

Place dimensions, annotations and graphical elements using commands from the Place main menu.

A sheet of a Draftsman document with some placed dimensions and annotation elements: Linear Dimensions, Radial Dimension, X, Y Axis Scales, Callouts, Center Marks, and Note.

Placing Tables

The Draftsman editor provides a range of data tables whose data is drawn directly from the applicable source design project document. The available tables are a Bill Of Materials (BOM), a Drill Table, a Transmission Line Table, and a generic Table that can be fulfilled with custom data. Use the group of table placement commands in the Place main menu to select the required table type.

Place tables using commands from the Place main menu.

A sheet of a Draftsman document with a placed BOM Table (split into two pages).

Generating Outputs

Draftsman documents may be printed or generated as output files:

• A Draftsman document can be added to an OutJob document. For the added output, configure the print options and assign it to a PDF container or Print Job.

  While OutputJob files facilitate streamlined preparation of outputs for your designs and their subsequent generation using the high-integrity project release process, the active Draftsman document can also be printed directly from the Draftsman editor using the File » Print command from the main menus.
• To export a Draftsman document to a single or multi-page PDF file (as determined by the document structure), select File » Export to PDF from the main menu and use the Save As dialog that opens to define the file name and location.
• Draftsman documents can be exported in .dxf format. This allows exporting Draftsman documents in a vectorial format. Select the File » Export to Dxf command from the main menus and use the Save As dialog that opens to define the file name and location.