Scaling and Copying Faces
The following illustration explains a situation where you will scale and copy the selected faces while moving them using the command. Open the ISM_scale_copy.e3 file available in the Samples folder of your think3 installation and follow the steps given below.
- Invoke the Move Faces command and select the side face of the cylindrical hole to be moved.
To reselect the face, right-click on the Faces selector, select
Reset from the context menu and then make a fresh selection. You can make use of
Propagation Limits, if needed.
- You need to reset the handle origin to the center of the hole. Right-click on Start point under
Handle Origin option in the selection list. Select
Reset from the context menu and then click on the center of the hole.
- Drag the Z handle or in the Delta Z mini dialog box, enter 100 such that the preview of the hole comes to the center of the cylindrical head.
- In the Move Faces selection list, select the
Copy check box. In the
Scale Factor, enter 2.5.
- Apply the command to make the transformation.
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