T-FLEX Parametric CAD. Fundamentals. 2D Design

Fundamentals. Two-Dimensional Design
Defining Fragment Placement in the Assembly Drawing
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When specifying location of the fixing vector or fixing points, the
nodes of the assembly drawing can be picked for carrying out
fragment attachment to the elements of the assembly drawing.
When changing location of the specified nodes of the assembly
drawing, the fragment placement will be modified as well.
If necessary, the fragment can be inserted by specifying the absolute coordinates for the fixing vector and
points. This becomes possible upon clicking at the desired place of the drawing in the absence of object snap.
The object snap can be turned off via the toolbar «View» or by pressing the key at the time of the
click. In this case, with the help of the section «Coordinates» in the fragment properties window the
adjustment of the coordinates of the fragment insertion can be performed.
Fragment placement using fixing vectors
When inserting a fragment by the fixing vector the system asks to define the vector fixing points.
If the fixing vector was defined in the fragment drawing by a single point, then you
need to specify only one point in the assembly drawing to place the fragment. Once
that is done, the image of the fragment will be placed in this point. The fragment
image cannot be rotated in this case.
If the fixing vector was defined by two points in the fragment drawing, then the
fragment can be placed in several ways.
The first way implies specifying two points, the first defining the location of the
fragment image, and the second - rotation of the fragment image about the first
point.
The option for handling this way appears upon specifying the first point:
Fixing using two points
When proceeding in this way and fixing the vector start to one node and the vector end to another, modifying
the position of the first node will change the location of the fragment image, while the second one - the
orientation.
The second approach differs from the first one as follows. The first point still defines the location of the
fragment image, while the second point, instead of maintaining the rotation, sets just once the rotation angle
of the fragment image with respect to the X-axis of the assembly drawing. The angle of rotation for the
fixing vector can be specified as a variable.
This way is handled by the option that appears upon defining the first point:
Fixing using one point and angle