Create Drawings¶

Compose a full drawing set inside TrafficCAD: viewports with live scales, title blocks, captured 3D views, sign schedules and MUTCD tables, PDF markups, and a fully editable typical application on its own sheet. About ten minutes.

The recording this tutorial follows (9:51).

1. Open the Drawings tool¶

Click Drawings in the top toolbar to open the drawing creator.

2. Add a viewport¶

A new sheet starts with a title block and nothing else. Add a Viewport and frame the model content it should show.

3. Position and scale the viewport¶

Drag the viewport into place, then work the Scale dropdown — the drawing re-renders to the new scale each time.

Resize the frame itself when the sheet composition needs it.

Elements inside the viewport stay live — grab a sign on the sheet and move it.

4. Choose a title block¶

Title blocks are templates — switch styles and the sheet re-renders.

5. Add a 3D view¶

Click 3D view, frame the model in 3D, and capture it onto the sheet.

6. Insert and format tables¶

Add a sign schedule — it reads the plan and lists every sign with code, size, mounting, and quantity.

Table styling is per-sheet: fonts, header colors, grid lines, striping.

7. Add details and MUTCD tables¶

Details and the MUTCD reference tables drop in the same way.

8. Mark up the sheet¶

The drawing editor is also a full PDF markup editor — polygons, clouds, callouts, all on the sheet.

9. Insert an editable typical application¶

Add a second sheet and drop in a Typical Application from the MUTCD template browser — every template inserts as fully editable vectors.

Drill into any element — sign legends edit as text in Highway Gothic.

Dimensions and quantities edit the same way.

Reference: Drawings & Plan Sheets · Schedules, Legends & Quantities · Typical Applications & Templates

Next steps: Export & Edit in Bluebeam — everything you just drew stays editable in the PDF.