Loading a Drawing Frame
A number of standard drawing frames are supplied with Creo Elements/Direct Drafting. To load one of these frames:
1. Click > 
Open to display the Creo Elements/Direct Drafting File Browser.
Open to display the Creo Elements/Direct Drafting File Browser.The Open dialog box opens.
2. Click Navigator.
The Creo Elements/Direct Drafting Navigator opens.
3. In the left pane of the Navigator, navigate to the Creo Elements/Direct Drafting installation directory.
The thumbnails of drawing frames are displayed for preview.
4. Double-click the thumbnail of the required drawing frame.
The frame is a symbol part which is always loaded below the Top part (refer to Handling Parts and Assemblies). Each frame consists of two concentric rectangles: the outer one the size of the respective paper size, the inner one between 10 to 50 mm smaller per side.
The frames are drawn in magenta with the dotted linetype and therefore usually are not plotted.
Drawing frame part names have the following format:
format_A.mi, format_A0.mi, format_B.mi and so on.
The ten frame options are:
•
A
• A0
• A1
• A2
• A3
• A4
• B
• C
• D
• E