Learn how 3D modeling enhances, enables, and facilitates 2D CAD drawing for design, engineering, and fabrication. Discover the benefits and challenges of 3D modeling.

The first step is to sketch the basic shape of your vehicle using the 2D sketch tools in Inventor. You can use lines, arcs, circles, splines, and other tools to draw the outline of your vehicle ...

But, as Martyn Day reports, new technologies are emerging to transform 2D drawings into models, as well as to generate drawings automatically from 3D model data Widespread adoption of 3D technology ...