Hi.
I hope somebody knows and can remind me a method I can use to move the blue line parallel to line AB so that the lower end of the blue line ends up at the same elevation as the upper end of the red line. I don't want to use any construction lines just AccuDraw and AccuSnap and tentative snaps.
I knew a way of doing this in the past, but it has escaped my mind now and am unable to figure it out.
see my video of how I did it at Basically I used accudraw with copy move parallel, BTW I used different colours so look at the video...
So with move copy parallel no copies select the red line and snap to green vertical line at top end keyin O for origin then keyin RQ to rotate the compass and snap to align to bottom end of green so we are locked in the X plain now as I move the mouse left ( or westerly ) the red line moves down the angled yellow line or your AB line when its inline with the green vertical and still parallel to its original position a projection will be shown when and where the two locations coincide..... unfortunately I started in a 3d file, I expected the projection to show as a dashed highlight maybe its my settings .. no matter it still shows where the coincidence occurs... so just data point where it happens and then I tested it was right by drawing a line locked in the that plane from the the top of the green and as shown in my video it worked...this last step was not needed I just wanted to prove to the video audience that it truly was in right spot...
I captured the actions with audio using the free app "Jing..." great fun doing it so enjoy and look at the video .. just click on the link above where it says
screen cast.com and it will take you to the video then click on play ... you may need headphones to hear the audio ... again enjoy....
Lorys
Started msnt work 1990 - Retired Nov 2022 ( oh boy am I old )
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Answer Verified By: ole_g
I did find it quite difficult to know when exactly the coincidence was even zoomed in because you said you didnt want any construction lines I could not use the keyboard input snap for intersection as the projection is not snapable .. 2 out of 3 times it was off by a few mm just using by eye when its on off tipping point..which you saw in the video is quite hard....
However if you allow us just one construction line, a horizontal line left of your vertical red line top endpoint then using the same method I out lined before when your close you can enter i for intersection and it it finds the point exactly every time sub mm perfect...
Hi Lorys. Yes, using the MOVE PARALLEL command for solving this problem is a "proximity" method as AccuSnap ignores the line being moved when the AccuDraw origin is re-defined inside the command, but just seeing how much effort you put in answering my question, including the video clip and all, I didn't dare to point this out in my previous message :). Another limitation is this method works on pretty much single segment lines only. If we were to use it to move a cell, which I work with all the time, MOVE PARALLEL wouldn't work. I forgot to mention this important detail in my original message.
I think I will not be able to do this without having to draw one construction line. But thanks a lot anyway.
Unknown said: Hi Lorys. Yes, using the MOVE PARALLEL command for solving this problem is a "proximity" method as AccuSnap ignores the line being moved when the AccuDraw origin is re-defined inside the command, but just seeing how much effort you put in answering my question, including the video clip and all, I didn't dare to point this out in my previous message :). Another limitation is this method works on pretty much single segment lines only. If we were to use it to move a cell, which I work with all the time, MOVE PARALLEL wouldn't work. I forgot to mention this important detail in my original message. I think I will not be able to do this without having to draw one construction line. But thanks a lot anyway.
Yes I found the same problem, it was hard to do as you made the restriction of no contruction lines to be used, but for moving lines , using just one horizontal construction line it does work with my method very nicely and does it very accurate with accudraw as shown in the video method .... as for cells
try rotate the view in line with line AB then draw construction line offset from CD to the red line now use move command to move the cell instead of parallel use enter when moving the cell right to left and the cell can only move horizontally parallel to AD ( like orthomode in acad) or axis lock in msnt.. I havent tried this yet just ran it through my mind... but seem logical and should work with cells.. ( centre or origins snaps)