What a drag

[CamHead]

Can somebody give me an example of a practical use for the drag function?

How can I can easily and rapidly create accurate entitties? It seems like a long way or cumbersome way to make geometry.

[Jimmy Wakeford from Barefoot CNC]

Are you using drag to copy/move geometry? if so you can select ans endpont,center,etc to drag from, then press "S" to snap to another endpoint,center,etc,

 

Jimmy

[CamHead]

Yes, it seems that I must already have a known point to drag the entity to. Because its multi directional, I can't seem to be able to assign a distance value to the drag.

I'm stuck in a parallel line paradigm. I think I'm looking for similar controlled results.

[Jimmy Wakeford from Barefoot CNC]

Grap something to drag and say ok.

At the top of the screen there are the different options available

 

(a)angle (h)horizontal (P)point ®roate (s)snap (t)translate (v)vertical ccw(=) cw(-) (o)options

 

Jimmy

[Thad]

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How can I can easily and rapidly create accurate entitties? It seems like a long way or cumbersome way to make geometry.

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Cam,

 

Creating them the 'normal' way would be your best bet. I see/use drag as a modifying tool. If I want to create a circle tangent to 2 lines, I create just that, rather than creating 2lines, a circle and then dragging the circle to snap tangent. I rarely use drag. It's usually something down and dirty when I do.

 

Edited to say that I used to use drag to see if my cutter would fit into tight spots. I would create a circle the diameter of my cutter, then drag it around my part to see if I would clear (or whatever). This would simulate my cutter. That was how my trainer showed me. Now I just Create-Arc-Circ point and dia, enter dia and move my mouse around. Then I cancel out without drawing the arc. A little off topic there, but worth a mention.

 

Thad

 

[ 11-19-2003, 10:22 PM: Message edited by: Thad ]

[Rekd™]

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That was how my trainer showed me.

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[Rick Damiani]

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Can somebody give me an example of a practical use for the drag function?

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- Positioning decorative items to be engraved when the absolute position is not as important as the overall look.

 

- A cumbursome, yet visually interesting, way to do Xform|Translate|Between Points

 

- A rather useful way to rotate and translate all at once, rather than doing one, then the other.

 

- A way to distribute a shape/contour over a number of points that are not in a convenently regualr pattern.

 

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How can I can easily and rapidly create accurate entitties? It seems like a long way or cumbersome way to make geometry.

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Use the sub-functions in the prompt line at the top of the screen. (S)nap lets you use an auto-cursor snap point as the destination point. (P)oint lets you change the drag point. The others have other interesting fuctions. Note that you can rotate while translating by hitting + or -, or you can translate while rotating by hitting + or -.

[Fig sign]

If you know the function you can always find a usage .

Like move your engavimg entities to some other place(this stuff sometimes not needs accuracy, but must be estetic )

I use it a lot (I move even toolpathes soetimes )

When I need something accurate , I prefer Xform

[mayday]

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That was how my trainer showed me. Now I just Create-Arc-Circ point and dia, enter dia and move my mouse around.

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+1 Thad

 

same here,works great when you are gramming large fabs/castings. are floormill has a 4' ram 18" square. kinda hard to see clearance problems. so I do just as you said. draw a sim of the cutter or ram and drag around to look for clearance

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same here,works great when you are gramming large fabs/castings. are floormill has a 4' ram 18" square. kinda hard to see clearance problems. so I do just as you said. draw a sim of the cutter or ram and drag around to look for clearance

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Much faster way 2 do this is to Create ->arc->circ.pt +dia