Drag, reshape and resize drawing objects
Many drawing objects, dimension lines and leader lines of many drawing objects have handles. You can use these handles to drag, reshape, and resize objects. If you have activated the Drawing drag & drop switch, you do not need to select the handles or objects separately to drag, reshape or resize the objects.
Drag, resize or reshape annotation objects, sketch objects and grid labels
- In an open drawing, go to the File menu, click Settings and select the Drawing drag & drop check box. After this, you can move, drag, resize or reshape drawing objects such as annotations, sketch objects and grid labels without selecting the objects or handles first.
- To move the handle points of sketch objects to resize or reshape, press down the left-mouse button at the handle and drag the handle to the new position.
- To drag the handles of grid labels, you need to select the grid line first.
Ensure that you have activated the Select grid line selection switch
. - You can also drag the associativity point of the leader line of the annotations objects.
Drag dimensions
- Activate the Drawing drag & drop switch to drag without selecting the handle first.
- Dimension marks can be freely dragged to avoid overlapping dimensions and marks.
- You can only drag relative dimensions, not absolute dimensions.
- Straight (linear) dimensions in drawings can be modified by dragging the dimensions from
dimension handles.
- Dragging in single dimension lines: If you try to drag a dimension point to a new position that is located behind an existing dimension point, the selected dimension point will be deleted from the old position and recreated in the new, preferred position. If you try to drag the point to the same coordinate position where the existing point is already located, the dragged dimension point is dropped back automatically to the initial position.
- Dragging in dimension sets: If you try to drag the point into the area between two points of neighbor dimension line, the selected dimension point will be deleted from the old position and recreated in the new, preferred position. If you try to drag the point to the same coordinate position where the existing point is already located, the dragged dimension point will be deleted from the old location and will be combined with the existing one, after dropping to the new location.
- Dragging a dimension point with a zero coordinate in running dimensions allows you to change
the coordinate of the start dimension point without running the Set dimension start point command.
Note:
When you drag a mark, note, text, or dimension, its placing setting may be set to fixed depending what its set for the advanced options listed below. The mark, note, text or dimension stays where it is, even though you update the drawing. You may want to check the settings defined for the following advanced options:
XS_CHANGE_DRAGGED_DIMENSIONS_TO_FIXED
XS_CHANGE_DRAGGED_MARKS_TO_FIXED