Add CAD-Line

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Add CAD-Line

Add CAD-Line

See also CAD-Line dialog

There is one CAD-Line from the start-Point to the end-Point of all Parts you add to the model.

You can also do Add CAD-Line to add more CAD-Lines to any Parts in the model, and also the 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 along the center of the Part.

Part-Editor : Add CAD-Line to add one or more CAD-LineRed-14-2 to a Part

CAD-Lines have a Coordinate System, which is important to orientate CAD files that you import

•+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))

MD-AT-CAD-Line

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.