# Drawings Mode: generating production drawings

> Drawings Mode lays out views, imports the dimensions marked in the model, applies hole callouts, inserts and balloons the BOM, and applies your title block, in batch across an assembly.

URL: https://cadabrai.com/docs/modes/drawings-mode/
Updated: 2026-08-15

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- [Getting started](https://cadabrai.com/docs/getting-started/) [Install](https://cadabrai.com/docs/getting-started/install/)
- [Your First Prompt](https://cadabrai.com/docs/getting-started/first-prompt/)
- [How It Works](https://cadabrai.com/docs/getting-started/how-it-works/)

- [All Five Modes](https://cadabrai.com/docs/modes/all-modes/)
- [Agent Mode](https://cadabrai.com/docs/modes/agent-mode/)
- [Ask Mode](https://cadabrai.com/docs/modes/ask-mode/)
- [Drawings Mode](https://cadabrai.com/docs/modes/drawings-mode/)

- [Writing Prompts](https://cadabrai.com/docs/prompts/writing-prompts/)
- [Prompt Library](https://cadabrai.com/docs/prompts/prompt-library/)

- [Drawing Standards](https://cadabrai.com/docs/standards/drawing-standards/)
- [Components and Fasteners](https://cadabrai.com/docs/standards/libraries-and-plm/)

- [Plans and Limits](https://cadabrai.com/docs/account/plans-and-limits/)
- [Preferences](https://cadabrai.com/docs/account/preferences/)
- [Billing](https://cadabrai.com/docs/account/billing/)

- [Data Handling](https://cadabrai.com/docs/security/data-handling/)

- [CADABRA Issues](https://cadabrai.com/docs/troubleshooting/cadabra-issues/)
- [SOLIDWORKS Errors](https://cadabrai.com/docs/troubleshooting/solidworks-errors/)

# Drawings Mode

Turns a part or an assembly into documentation on your own standards, one sheet or the whole assembly at a time.

Requires

Drawings Mode with custom standards is part of the [Enterprise plan](https://cadabrai.com/pricing/#enterprise), because it depends on your title blocks and drawing rules being configured for your organization first.

## What comes out

- Standard views chosen from the geometry, plus section views where the geometry needs one. Detail and auxiliary views are not generated yet.
- Dimensions imported from the ones marked for drawing in the model, placed into lanes rather than stacked. Overall envelope dimensions are added outright.
- Hole callouts, centre marks and centrelines.
- For assemblies, the BOM built from the assembly structure, ballooned to match its item numbers.
- Your title block, populated from the model’s custom properties, on a sheet size and scale chosen from the geometry.
- A saved `.SLDDRW` next to the model.

Drawings Mode does not export PDF. Once the drawing exists, exporting it to PDF, DXF or DWG is a separate operation in Agent Mode.

If nothing in the part is marked for drawing, the sheet comes back with the views and the title block but almost no dimensions. Mark dimensions once in the part and every later drawing of it comes out complete.

## Running it across an assembly

Point it at a top-level assembly and ask for drawings of every part. It walks the structure and produces one sheet per part plus the assembly drawing.

Run it on a small assembly first so you can check the conventions before a large batch.

## Configure standards first

Set up [standards](https://cadabrai.com/docs/standards/drawing-standards/) before running a batch. Without them, generation falls back to the host SOLIDWORKS default template.

On this page

- [What comes out](#what-it-produces)
- [Running it across an assembly](#batch)
- [Configure standards first](#standards-first)