Move and Duplicate

Edit Menu:

Right-Click popup menu:

Selection Tab:

You can select the element(s) by clicking on them and it shall appear in the selection box.

Type:

Here, you can choose the element according to the type of solid (Wireframe, Solid or both) and the mode to Move/Duplicate the geometry. For different modes, you would have to input different corresponding values.

Move geometry

Several modes are available, including many new features:

• Translation

  • By vector

  • By direction and length

• Rotation

  • Around a point

  • Around an axis

• Symmetry

  • By line

  • By point and face

• Scale

• Axis system to Axis System

Result:

The result can be:

-Simple Move: this option allows the movement of the element(s) according to the mode chosen to the desired position.

-Move with design history kept: this option make it possible for the selected element(s) to have a link to all construction previously made.

You can watch a video on move geometry:

Duplicate geometry

Several modes are available:

• Translation

  • By vector

  • By direction and length

• Rotation

  • Around a point

  • Around an axis

• Symmetry

  • By line

  • By point and face

• Linear Pattern

• Circular Pattern

• Scale

• Axis system to Axis System

Result:

The result can be:

-Simple Move: this option allows the movement of the element(s) according to the mode chosen to the desired position.

-Move with design history kept: this option make it possible for the selected element to have a link to all construction previously made.

-Copy with link with original entity: the geometry which has been duplicated will not be editable as it dependent on the original feature. If ever any change is made to the original entity, the dependent one will be modified accordingly.

You can watch a video where we use the Scale option to place the title block: (double-click in the video to enlarge it!)

Behaviour of the move and duplicate commands:

• the elements selected can be sorted out by type,

• you can apply one move and keep the selection to add another move.

A new pre-visualization effect allows the user to see the changes.

You can also easily interact with the interface element or you can click the point or the arrow to move it dynamically.

For linear pattern in Mode (Duplicate geometry), you can choose ‘X’ and ‘Y’ axis by clicking any axis or geometry. 2 colors, yellow and clear blue, are applied to visualize them on the screen.

An arrow for direction is given, a click in the dialog enables to invert easily the direction.