Design Intent Capture generates and assigns parametric constraints as geometry is constructed. Constraint types depend on the method used to construct geometry. For example, when creating one line perpendicular to another line a perpendicular constraint will be created and associated with the two lines.

Design Intent Capture improves the speed, accuracy, and quality of parametric constraint definition by combining the separate steps of geometry creation and constraint assignment into one action.

Without Design Intent Capture constraints must be assigned after geometry has been created. This forces the designer to remember the relationships between geometric elements and record them by assigning constraints. Even worse, if the geometry was created by someone else the designer must try to reason backward and guess at the appropriate constraints. These problems are avoided by using Design Intent Capture.

The quality of constraints in the final parametric drawing is usually much better when Design Intent Capture is used compared with relying on Complete to generate all constraints. Quite possibly a drawing will be fully constrained when Design Intent Capture is used. But even if some additional constraints are required, Complete will have a much better starting point.