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Table Of Contents
Chapter 21. Object Manipulation
In this section you will learn how to modify position, rotation, size, color and transparency of geometry
objects in your model by using the Object Manipulation toolbar.
To open it, right-click anywhere in the toolbar area of the screen, and click Object Manipulation on the
shortcut menu.
All object manipulation is carried out the in the main NavisWorks window.
Note:
If objects are moved through the Object Manipulation toolbar, they are considered to be globally
moved, as if they’d been changed in the original CAD model.
Translate Item
Rotate Item
Scale Item
Modify Item Color
Modify Item Transparency
Snap Item
Manual Entry boxes
Using Snapping
When you manipulate geometry objects by changing their position, rotation or size you can use snapping
to control the precision of your operations in the main NavisWorks window. To turn on snapping mode,
click the Toggle Snapping button on the Object Manipulation toolbar.
The snap works like a 'gravity' around the snap points. This enables you to snap the start position of the
selected visual tool to a relevant point on the screen, such as center, corner of bounding box, vertex of
geometry. Similarly, the end point of the translation, rotation or scale operation can also be snapped to a
desired point on the screen (for example, center of another geometry object).
You can adjust the way snapping works by using the Options Editor. For more information, see
“Snapping”.
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