Position entities by specifying source and target locations.
Change the position of the selected
entities by picking one, two, or three source and target location pairs. The source
locations represent starting reference points, which will be matched with their
corresponding targets to produce a transformation. The transformation performed is a
combination of translation and rotation procedures that is applied to the selected
entities until they are relocated.
From the Home tools, click the Move tool.
Figure 1.
From the guide bar, change the mode from Interactive to
Position.
From the guide bar, click Source
and select up to three source locations in the modeling window.
Select Target and select an equivalent number of target
locations in the modeling window.
Optional: Click and select
Show preview to preview the updated position.
On the guide bar, complete one of the
following:
Click to apply and stay in the tool.
Click to apply and close the tool.
Click to exit the tool without applying.
Selecting one pair of source and target
locations directly translates the selected entities from S1 to T1.Figure 2. Selecting two pairs of source and target locations translates the selected
entities from S1 to T1. The entities are then rotated around S1, until S2 and T2 are
aligned along the same vector (Using S1 as the vector’s origin).Figure 3. Selecting three pairs of source and target locations translates the selected
entities from S1 to T1. The entities are then rotated around S1, until S2 matches with
T2. Lastly, the entities are rotated around the (T1, T2) axis until the S3 and T3
locations are in the same plane.Figure 4. Figure 5. Result