- [Instructor] When editing your existing geometry
that you already have completed and has certain
automatic relations or other relations inside of it,
sometimes it makes sense to advantage
of the features under the Move Entities tab.
So, here we can find Move, Copy,
Rotate, Scale, and Stretch Entities,
so let's take a look at how all these work.
I'm going to start with Move Entities.
Move Entities is pretty simple, it's just how it describes.
If you hover over it you can get a description
and it says, "Move sketch entities
"and annotations," and that's what it does.
You simply select the object you want to move
and you can move it using X/Y, so I can just
(clicks) adjust it like this, and you can see
the preview of it moving the entity,
or you can do a From/To where you choose the start point
and then you can move it to another point,
and you can keep moving it around until
you decide it's in the position that you like.
I'm going to drop it back over here and then hit Okay.
So, that's the Move feature, it's pretty simple.
You can select a lot of entities if you want,
so for example, I'm going to select all these entities
and I'm going to move them from here over to the origin.
If I hit Escape it just closes it,
and there you go, so pretty simple.
The next one down is Copy Entities.
If we click on that we're basically just going to
make all of the same selections in the same options
as we have in Move, we're just making a copy.
So, right now I'm going to drag over all of these
and select all of those lines, choose a start point
from right here, and as I drag over you can see
in yellow the preview of the copy I'm going to make.
I left click again to choose the point
where I want it to go, and if I want to
I can keep making multiple copies,
(clicks) and once I'm ready I can hit the green
checkbox and stop, so that's pretty awesome.
I can now go in and use the next
feature down, which is the Rotate feature.
Let's say I don't like the orientation
of this and I want to rotate all of the entities.
I can just drag and select all of these different items,
choose a center of rotation, and then
just manually choose it by whatever degree.
I'm going to choose to move this by 90 degrees.
Hit Okay, and now it's rotated.
So, again, these are pretty simple features.
You're basically just selecting geometry and moving,
rotating it, or copying it just by choosing to do it
in the X/Y or using a reference point with the From/To.
Scale Entities is a little bit different,
is where we're literally going to scale up,
like the icon indicates, what you have.
So, for this one I'm going to choose the outer rim.
It's just taking a minute for my computer
to catch up while I select all these items,
and actually, what would be easier is
I'm going to right click on this to Select Chain.
That selects all the items in there.
Now I'm going to go to the dropdown and choose Scale Entities.
I'm going to scale about this center point,
so I'm going to make sure that I've got this window selected,
choose that center point, and now as I scale up
you can see how all of those entities
are scaling out from that center point.
I'm going to go ahead and click Okay,
and now I've scaled it, pretty easy.
The last one that we want to show off here
is the Stretch Entities, so if I go this dropdown
and select Stretch Entities, like it sounds,
you're literally going to choose some parts and pull them away.
So, I'm going to choose this feature and this feature.
I'm going to just zoom in a little bit,
and I'm going to do a From/To, so I'm going to start
with this point, oop, there we go,
clear that selection, here, we'll just do it by the X/Y.
(clicks)
Now, you can see it's not stretching anything out.
It's trying to move that line but it's not doing anything.
Because the lines around it have relations to it
I need to select those lines as well,
and now you can see that I can stretch
that entity and move those lines out.
So, what happens is if you have relations in your sketch
you're not going to be able to move it.
You need to be able to move all the entities
that the item is connected to.
I could do this with the From/To as well
and just click here and drag it out.
I can bring it up, I can bring it down.
It's just loosening up those relationships
but maintaining the connection between them.
Click again to set the position, then click green to accept.
So, pretty easily that's Move, Copy,
Rotate, Scale, and Stretch Entities.
These can be very powerful tools.
One thing that we didn't see here is
there's not a lot of dimensions on this.
If you have some dimensions on your sketch
you might want to take some of those off
before you use those features because it might
limit you by the relations, but otherwise,
as you can see, it can be pretty powerful
to accurately rotate and reorient
and scale all of the different features
you've already created in your sketch.