Position Entities using Position Mode

Position entities by specifying source and target locations.

Change the position of the selected entities by picking one, two, or three source and target location pairs. The source locations represent starting reference points, which will be matched with their corresponding targets to produce a transformation. The transformation performed is a combination of translation and rotation procedures that is applied to the selected entities until they are relocated.
  1. From the Home tools, click the Move tool.


    Figure 1.
  2. From the guide bar, change the mode from Interactive to Position.
  3. From the guide bar, click Source and select up to three source locations in the modeling window.
  4. Select Target and select an equivalent number of target locations in the modeling window.
  5. Optional: Click and select Show preview to preview the updated position.
  6. On the guide bar, complete one of the following:
    • Click to apply and stay in the tool.
    • Click to apply and close the tool.
    • Click to exit the tool without applying.
Selecting one pair of source and target locations directly translates the selected entities from S1 to T1.


Figure 2.
Selecting two pairs of source and target locations translates the selected entities from S1 to T1. The entities are then rotated around S1, until S2 and T2 are aligned along the same vector (Using S1 as the vector’s origin).


Figure 3.
Selecting three pairs of source and target locations translates the selected entities from S1 to T1. The entities are then rotated around S1, until S2 matches with T2. Lastly, the entities are rotated around the (T1, T2) axis until the S3 and T3 locations are in the same plane.


Figure 4.


Figure 5. Result