How on earth do you grab and move drawing geometry

michael_fuller

I simply want to grab and move drawing geometry (related lines and circles, etc.) within a sketch.  Simple stuff, but I cannot figure out at all how to do this.

michael3424

If the sketch entities are black, then they are constrained to something and you won't be able to drag them around.  Entities that are blue are unconstrained and you should be able to move them around so long as you are in edit mode for the sketch.  To remove sketch constraints, edit the sketch and check the box for "Show constraints".  That will reveal each of the constraints and you can delete those that you don't want by left clicking on them (to select them) and hitting the delete key on your keyboard.

NeilCooke

You can also use Transform (select geometry, right click)

heider_sati

You can do this in 2 ways:

1) Select the vertices (dots) NOT lines of your sketch, once all are selected, drag one of them, it should move the rest. Or;

2) More from an "engineering" perspective; drag to select your sketch, right-click and then select "Transform" you should see the arrows to move X, or Y, Scale or Rotate altogether. 

I hope this helps, 

Kind Regards

Heider

viru

@michael_fuller, Currently this facility is not available in Onshape. You can raise improvement request for this. In near future we hope that this facility will be provided by Onshape. Till time you have to give dimension manually by dimension tool.

michael3424

If the sketch entities are black, then they are constrained to something and you won't be able to drag them around.  Entities that are blue are unconstrained and you should be able to move them around so long as you are in edit mode for the sketch.  To remove sketch constraints, edit the sketch and check the box for "Show constraints".  That will reveal each of the constraints and you can delete those that you don't want by left clicking on them (to select them) and hitting the delete key on your keyboard.

NeilCooke

You can also use Transform (select geometry, right click)

heider_sati

You can do this in 2 ways:

1) Select the vertices (dots) NOT lines of your sketch, once all are selected, drag one of them, it should move the rest. Or;

2) More from an "engineering" perspective; drag to select your sketch, right-click and then select "Transform" you should see the arrows to move X, or Y, Scale or Rotate altogether. 

I hope this helps, 

Kind Regards

Heider

julian_hallberg062

It's 2024 and on the drawing, there is still no possiblity to move a selection of lines to a new position?

NeilCooke

julian_hallberg062 said:

It's 2024 and on the drawing, there is still no possiblity to move a selection of lines to a new position?

When you say "Drawing" do you mean "Sketch" or "Drawing"? Do the suggestions above not do what you want? These answers are for Sketch.

S1mon

@julian_hallberg062
Do you literally mean on a 2D drawing, or in Sketcher? 

In Sketcher, you can use the Transform tool. In the Drawing tool, there isn't a way to do move multiple items at the same time, unless the sketch items are sketched on top of a part view, in which case they will move with the view.

Typically there shouldn't be much of a reason to manually sketch a lot of stuff in a drawing. If you really need a complex sketch in a drawing, create in a part studio and insert it into the drawing.

erik_emstad

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/102569#Comment_102569

In a drawing. I have a title block (custom template) that I need to move slightly. So a large group of text objects and lines that need to move about 3mm to align with the drawing border. Seems like a trivial task, but nope. Apparently impossible?

bernd_brincken

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/3860/how-on-earth-do-you-grab-and-move-drawing-geometry

Same here, and the "good" answers, to remove constraints or transform .. are not at all simple to use.

Folks, this is ridicilous, this software claims to be easy to use, and the most basic, straitforwarward idea (back from Xerox labs) to move the mouse cursor, click and drag an edge or part - does not work.

Right click a line - no "transform" function is mentioned.
After finding the transform icon, and activating it - no selection of my line is possible.
Then, "Show constraints" is marked - but where ary they?

What happended in the heads of the developers to sell us this .. convulted mess?
Sorry …😒