Drag, reshape, and resize drawing objects
2D drawing objects, sketch objects, dimension lines, and leader lines have handles that enable dragging, reshaping, or resizing. Activating the Drawing drag & drop switch streamlines this process by eliminating the need for separate selection of the handle to be able to drag it. You can also preselect drawing sketch objects for easier selection of the correct handles, and use numeric input for precise adjustment.
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 checkbox. 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.
- You can also preselect drawing sketch objects. When you place your mouse pointer over a
drawing sketch object, lines and handles are highlighted.
- 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 annotation objects.
Drag drawing sketch objects using numeric input
When dragging handles, lines, or midpoints of drawing sketch objects, you can enter numeric values to specify the desired distance.
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To enter a numeric value, start dragging a handle, line, or midpoint. While dragging, begin typing the desired value on the keyboard. The Enter a Numeric Location dialog for typing the numeric value is displayed. Type a distance or coordinates. When ready, click OK or press Enter on the keyboard.
For handles, the numeric value tells how much you move the handle in the direction of dragging, whereas for lines and midpoints, the numeric value tells how much you move the line or midpoint perpendicularly.
Drag dimensions
- Activate the Drawing drag & drop switch to drag without selecting the dimension first.
- To drag dimension marks to avoid overlapping dimensions and marks, select the mark handle first.
- 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 the neighboring 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.
Advanced options changing annotation placing to fixed
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