Movement and Rotation Handles

Move and rotate a part or an subassembly from its handles in an assembly. A part has three movement handles and around them three rotation handles. A handle a.k.a. a grip point looks like a straight or twisted arrow and different directions are illustrated in colors.

When you select a part, the handles will appear. By default all handles are rendered. You can hide or display the handles according to which the part is free to move or rotate by selecting or unselecting Solve Free Direction of Under-defined in the assembly properties. Assembly Properties

With the keyword analyse_underdefined_at_solve you can define whether to solve free direction of under-defined by default in a new assembly. With value analyse_underdefined_at_solve=0 free directions are not solved and with valueanalyse_underdefined_at_solve=1 free directions are solved.

Use of Handles

You can drag a handle (a.k.a a grip point) or you can select them. After you select a handle, you can also type a movement or rotation value from keyboard.

You can cancel the function and return the part to its original position by pressing Esc.

Do one of the following:

Drag a part from its handle

  1. Select a part or a subassembly.
  2. Select a handle without releasing the mouse button.
  3. Drag the cursor. The part moves in the handle's direction.
  4. Locate the part on its place by releasing the mouse button.

Select a handle and move the part

  1. Select a part or a subassembly.
  2. Select a handle by clicking it.
  3. Move the cursor. The part moves in the handle's direction.
  4. Locate the part on its place by clicking in the active window area.

Select a handle and type a value

  1. Select a part or a subassembly.
  2. Select a handle by clicking it.
  3. Type a value for the movement or rotation from the keyboard. The part moves in the handle's direction.

Move a Handle

The software creates a handle in the part's original origin, so it can situate far away from the part. Move or rotate the handle by selecting the handle while pressing the Alt key. You can locate the handle in the active window and for example change the part's movement direction or rotate a part around a certain point.

Disable the Handles

You can remove the movement, rotation and stretching handles in the software settings. Drawing and Model Settings Then the software hides handles a.k.a. grip points from the assembly’s editable parts and sub-assemblies and also from profiles and pipes.

  • Clear the check box Show Move, Rotate and Stretch Handles.