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Interface

Navigating

  • Pan (two finger swipe/right mouseclick + Shift - also Control + Shift + click and drag)
  • Zoom (pinch)
  • Rotate View (two finger swipe/right mouseclick - also Control + click and drag

Setup:

  • Turn on Point Snap (End, Midpoint, Center, Intersection, Perpendicular, Quadrant) & Grid Snap
  • Turn on Gumball
  • Turn on shading for the perspective window (shaded or ghosted)

  • Tip: Enter or Space to enter commands


First Steps

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WhatHowVisual Aid
selectionall (right bottom to left top)
only elements fully enclosed (left top to right bottom
navigating
  • Pan (two finger swipe/right mouseclick + Shift - also Control + Shift + click and drag)
  • Zoom (pinch)
  • Rotate View (two finger swipe/right mouseclick - also Control + click and drag

selection

depending how you drag your selection window either everything touched by the selection window is selected (bottom right to top left) or only objects that are fully enclosed by the window are selected (top lect to bottom right)


create geometry

_line
_curve
_circle
_arc
_rectangle

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ddit
edit 2D

_move
_copy
_rotate
_scale
_dir (flip direction)
_array

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_join
_eplode
_trim
_split
_group
_ungroup

_extend
_mirror

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edit with gumball

Turn on control points

Turn on gumball

Turn on history

  • select control points or geometry and use handles to move, rotate or scale
  • extrude: drag move handle then hold Command
  • to select contour: Command + Shift + select contour

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create 3D geometry

_pipe
_box
_sphere
_cylinder

_sweep
_loft
_rail
_revolve
_extrude

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boolean operations

_BooleanUnion
_BooleanDifference
_BooleanIntersection

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use a reference image_BackgroundBitmap

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