CAD-Line

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CAD-Line

Add CAD-Line

See also CAD-Line dialog

We add for you a CAD-Line from the start-Point to the end-Point of each Part you add to the model.

You can also edit a Part* to add one or more CAD-Lines to the Part in the Part-Editor.

Each Part you add to the model has a CAD-Line from its start-Point to the end-Point. Also, you can edit the Part to add to more CAD-Lines.

The Base-Part does not automatically have a CAD-Line.  But, you can also edit the Base-Part to add to it one or more CAD-Lines.

* Part and Base-Part.

Use the CAD-Line dialog to:

•Import and display a SOLIDWORKS Part

•Import and display an STL File

•Import SolidWorks Mass-Properties

•Edit the User Mass-Properties of the CAD-Line

•Display a DXF-Drawing - before you can display the DXF-Drawing, you must File menu > Open DXF File

•Change how to display the CAD-Solid

Add CAD-Line

Geometry toolbar

Add Gearing FB

1.Click Geometry toolbar > Add CAD-Line (left of graphics-area)

OR

1.Click Geometry menu > CAD-Line

2.Drag in the graphics-area from the start-Point to the end-Point.

Drag: mouse-button-down (start-Point), move your mouse-pointer, mouse-button-up (end-Point).

The CAD-Line is now in the graphics-area.

See CAD-Line dialog

To Add CAD-Line with a free start-Point and/or end-Point.

Do NOT HOVER above a different Point* before you mouse-button-down or mouse-button-up to add the Line.

See also: How to Delete a Constraint

To Add CAD-Line with a merged start-Point and/or end-Point.

Do HOVER above a different Point* before you mouse-button-down or mouse-button-up to add the Line.

See: Hover+Drag Video

* Point, start-Point, end-Point, center-Point.

Note :

You can open the CAD-Line dialog from the:

• Part-Editor, the Mechanism-Editor, and, if you import a CAD-Solid to the CAD-Line, the Model-Editor

The CAD-Line in the graphics-area and Assembly-Tree

CAD-Lines in an Added-Part

CAD-Lines in an Added-Part

In the graphics-area:

Mechanism-Editor : Add-Part - a CAD-LineRed-14-1b is automatically along the center of the Part.

Part-Editor : Add CAD-Line to add CAD-LinesRed-14-2 to a Part.

Each CAD-Line has a Coordinate System, which is important to orientate a CAD file that you import onto the CAD-Line. The Coordinate-System is coincident with the Part's axes. You must remember or find the Coordinate-System of a CAD-Line that you add to the model.

•+X–axis: from its start-PointRed-14-3 to its end-PointRed-14-4

•+Y–axis: at +90º from the +X–axis

•+Z-axis: perpendicular to the Mechanism Plane (towards you in the default view (Front-View))

Note:

A start-Point always has a lower element-number than the corresponding end-Point. Click the Points at each end of a CAD-Line to show their element-names in the Selection-Window.

OR see View References.

In the Assembly-Tree:

•The CAD-Line is the only sketch-elements that show in the Assembly-Tree.

•The Cad-Line is a child to a Part.

 
Assembly-Tree: CAD-Line

Assembly-Tree: CAD-Line