Catch Points to draw line

RE: Catch Points to draw line

Rushan Gizzatullin — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 14:22:13 GMT

Dear Stefanos,

Thank you very much for the feedback =)

RE: Catch Points to draw line

Stefanos Papavasileiou — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:05:01 GMT

Rushan described it very well! Thank you!

RE: Catch Points to draw line

Jeremy Kuelling — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 21:05:31 GMT

Great. Thank you very much.

RE: Catch Points to draw line

Rushan Gizzatullin — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 20:54:29 GMT

Dear Jeremy,

You are welcome.

PLAXIS gives a really great functionality with commands. Almost everything you do via cursor and keyboard you can do via command line. All commands you can find in the menu Help → Command reference:

Also I recommend you to look:

RE: Catch Points to draw line

Jeremy Kuelling — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 20:35:31 GMT

Wow! Thank you so much. If only I knew this earlier.. This makes my life a lot easier. Where can I find other commands like this? Mabye I can use more commands of which I don't know yet..

RE: Catch Points to draw line

Rushan Gizzatullin — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:54:38 GMT

Dear Jeremy,

If I understood you correctly, you want to create a line between two existing points in PLAXIS 3D without typing its coordinates.
If it is true, you can use one of the following variants:

1. The name of point

a. Choose two points with pressed Ctrl (or with selection rectangle) and click the right mouse button. In the appeared menu choose Selection:

The names of the points will be copied to clipboard.

b. Choose line option on the side bar or type «line» in the command line and paste the text (Ctrl+V):

c. Unfortunately PLAXIS does not like parentheses (brackets), so we need to delete it:

d. Press Enter:

You can choose only one point, copy its name via right-click menu, paste it in the command line and repeat the algorithm for the second point.

2. Tab key

a. Choose line option on the side bar or type «line» in the command line.
b. Point the mouse cursor on the first point.
c. Click Tab key to snap it. Cursor freezes.
d. Point the cursor on the second point.
e. Click Tab key for the second snapping
f. Click again for the line.

Hope it will help you.