• Create drawings of all Creo Parametric models.

• Export drawing files to other systems and import files into Drawing mode.

• View and annotate models and drawings.

• Manipulate dimensions, and use layers to manage the display of different items. Creo Parametric associates drawings with their parent models. The model automatically reflects any dimensional changes that you make to a drawing. In addition, corresponding drawings also reflect any changes that you make to a model (such as the addition or deletion of features and dimensional changes) in Part, Sheetmetal, Assembly, or Manufacturing modes.

• Work with various view types. All views in the drawing are associative. If you change a dimensional value in one view, other drawing views are updated accordingly.

• Work with multiple sheets in the drawing.

• Add and modify different kinds of textual and symbolic information.

• Define mapkeys for drawing operations. Execute the mapkeys in any of the tabs irrespective of whether the tab is active or not.

• Customize engineering drawings with sketched geometry, create custom drawing formats, and make multiple cosmetic changes to drawings.

• Use shortcut menus to modify an object in a drawing from anywhere in the Model Tree, Drawing Tree, or the graphics window. At any time when a drawing window is active, you can interrupt your current process and activate a drawing object for modification.

• Create 3D parametric, feature-based models from 2D drawing data using AutobuildZ. The 2D drawing data can be imported to Creo Parametric from any of the supported file formats, such as DXF, DWG, and IGES. Additionally you can use the following capabilities of AutobuildZ:

◦ Clean up 2D data by moving unnecessary and unwanted data to blanked layers.

◦ Associate the parts with the active drawing in session.

◦ Create features in the active part by selecting geometric entities on the drawing in session.

◦ Map the views of the drawing to datum planes in the parts.

◦ Automatically regenerate the drawing views of the active part on a separate drawing sheet when features are added to the active part.