Add Line

Geometry toolbar

Toolbar:

Geometry toolbar

Menu:

Add menu > Geometry sub-menu> > Add Line

What to do:
2.Click Geometry toolbar > Add Line.
3.Drag in the graphic-area to specify the start-Point and then its end-Point.

'Drag': mouse-button-down [start-Point], move your mouse-pointer, mouse-button-up [end-Point].

The Line is now in the graphic-area.

Free-Points and Merged-Points

Add the start-Point and end-Point of the Line as:

Free-Points

Add constraints and dimensions to the start-Point and end-Point later.

You can delete constraints and dimensions, if necessary.

Do this for a layout sketch.

See Also: How to Delete a Constraint

Merged-Points

Do this to construct a 'sketch-path'

See: Hover+Drag , merge-points.

More details of a Line

1.A Line (and a CAD-Line) has an Origin and a positive X–axis direction.
•The Origin is its start-Point.
•The positive X–axis is from the Origin to its end-Point.
2.Use the Origin and X–axis direction of the Line to:
•Identify the positive direction of a Slider.

See Add Motion-Dimension FB

•Identify the Origin and +X–axis of a Plane. See Add Plane

To identify which is the Line's start-Point and/or end-Point when it is constrained to other Points.

If the Line is coincident with other Points, then do:

STEP 1:

1.Click on the Line so that it shows in the Selection-Window
2.Right-click the Line in the Selection-Window
3.Click 'Show element references...' in the contextual-menu

Take a note of the Point numbers in the dialog. The lowest Point number is the start-Point and Origin of the Line.

STEP 2:

1.Click the start-Point and end-Point in the graphic-area

The Point with the lowest Point number, as noted in STEP 1, is the start-Point of the Line.

Example

How:

Selection-Window

AddLine
•'Drag' from the start to the end Point of the Line
•Linen +
•Pointn at each end of the Line

Tutorial and Reference Help Files for MechDesigner and MotionDesigner 13.2 + © Machine, Mechanism, Motion and Cam Design Software by PSMotion Ltd