Creating a Drafting Group

Access: Open this function from one of the following locations:

Click the button in the toolbar.
Select Groups > Groups > Create Group from the menu bar.
Select Groups > Create Group on the popup menu (right-click the graphics area).

Create a group of drafting entities.

In the following example, the screw will be defined as a group.

Activate the view which contains the entities you wish to pick.

InvokeInvoke (for more, click Access at the top of this Help topic) the Create Group function. The Create Group Feature Guide is displayed:

Required Step 1

Pick the screw edges using the box selection and <exit><exit>(middle mouse button):

Required Step 2

Enter a name for the group and pick reference points. By default the first point picked (dark red) serves as the origin reference point:

Optional Step 3

Pick any of the newly-defined reference points to define a new origin point and <exit><exit>(middle mouse button):

When you are finished, click OK or Apply in the Feature Guide to complete the function. A master group is created. To apply an instance of this master group see Place Group.