Technical Drawing/Drafting

No, not that I'm aware of and I won't say, 'unfortunately', because I feel it's good learning experience for young designers. When I started out, my first job was to take old drawings, model the parts, build the assemblies and create explosion views of various assemblies and sub-assemblies. I learned a lot about our companies designs in a very short period of time.

I do the same thing with some of our interns.

To your question, I wouldn't say anything is impossible but, I haven't seen anything like that to date. Building the logic into a program to do so would be quite the feat.

Basic tips:

• Sketch sections that capture the greatest number of features
• If symmetrical, plan accordingly, about your plane of symmetry
• Patterns are your friend; learning how each patterning feature works can save you a lot of time & energy
• Mirror is a friend as well and suits the intent to create symmetry

I'll add more later.

I should also add.... template parts, master parts, whatever naming convention you like for them.

Especially if your doing lots of similar designs, they can come in really handy. Edit a few sketch dimensions and/or parameters, and you're done with the bulk of the new design.

I work with a lot of similar designs for a range of part families. The first time around, I create a master model and parameterize all of the dimensions I may want to drive later. I often find myself going back to the master to create another similar-but-different part, which saves a chunk of time.

Програма яка розпізнає креслення і на його основі побудує модель покишо немає. Але в програмі Inventor э можливысть використовувати як основу для моделюваня файли в форматі DWG.

The program which recognizes the drawing and on its basis will not build the model yet. But in Inventor it is possible to use DWG files as a basis for simulation.