Move Faces

Advanced Face Modeling Package

General

  • You can use face moving to stretch or shorten a part so that adjacent faces continue maintaining their direction.
  • Use the function to stretch a part model when the part does not have a history that could otherwise be modified by editing.
    • Suitable for stretching parts imported from other CAD systems.

Move Faces

  1. Select the ribbon bar function Part | Faces | Move Faces or
    • Import | Faces | Move Faces.
  2. Select one or more faces.
  3. Select Confirm (Confirm = V key, middle mouse button or the context-sensitive function OK).
    • The program marks the faces to be moved in the model with red and
    • opens the dialog box Move Face in which the faces to be moved are listed.
  4. Edit the set of faces, if necessary.
    • Add.
    • Change.
    • Delete.
  5. Select OK.
    • The program frees the faces to be moved to slide in the direction of the normal of the last selected face and
    • Opens another dialog box Move Face in which you can enter a movement and angle.
    • You can free or change the locking directions with the shortcut keys U, I or O.
  6. Define the new location of the face in the Move Face data dialog box.
    1. Click the new location for the face or
      • The program fills in the values ​​of the clicked movement in the dialog box.
    2. enter the values for the movement and angle in the dialog box.
      • Distance in X ,Y and Z direction.
      • Rotation angle around X, Y and Z axis.
    3. Formula, if you want to control the movement or angle with a dimension table.
  7. Click Apply to see what the part will look like with the values ​​you enter.
    • Edit the data in the dialog box, if necessary.
  8. Select OK.
    • The function stretches the faces adjacent to the moving faces, but their direction is maintained.
    • If you did not select enough faces or entered "wrong values", no stretching will occur.

Moving selected faces

  1. Select one or more faces in a part model.
    • Hold down the Ctrl key if you select more than one face.
    • If you select more than one face, first select the face in the normal direction of which you want to move the faces by default.
  2. Select the context-sensitive function Faces> Move.

    If you selected more than one face, select the function for the face that you selected last.

  3. Continue as above, steps 4...7.

Example 1:

  • A: X distance = 40.
  • B: X distance = -40.
  • C: Z rotation = 30
  • D: X rotation = 30.

Example 2:

  • The face is moved and rotated.

Example 3:

The cutting face of a toroid is moved

  • The shape of the toroid is retained, but it is cut from a new location.