Push/Pull

This tool has two modes: Push/Pull allows you to move faces, changing the size or shape of your design. Move Feature allows you to translate and rotate a feature (a set of faces such as a hole, pocket, or protrusion). This tool only works on objects without construction history.

Note: This tool only works on objects without construction history. To collapse the construction history of a selected object, press Alt+C.
  1. On the ribbon, click the Direct tab.
  2. Click the Push/Pull icon.
  3. Do one of the following:
    To Do this
    Push/pull faces
    1. In the guide bar, select Operation: Push/Pull.

    2. Select a face.
    3. Do one of the following:
      • Drag the arrow.
      • Click the arrow and enter a Distance.
      • In some cases, such as a round, push/pulling a face moves the adjacent faces too. To move a single face in a group such as a round, in the guide bar select Step , and then drag the arrow.


        Figure 1. Without Step selected, push/pulling the face moves the group of faces


        Figure 2. With Step selected, push/pulling the face only moves the single face
    4. Repeat the steps above to push/pull additional faces on the same or a different object.
    Translate and rotate a feature A feature is a set of faces such as a hole, pocket, or protrusion.
    1. In the guide bar, select Operation: Move Feature.

    2. Select a face of the feature that is along the boundary edge.

      Note: The feature can intersect only one face of the object.
      Figure 3. This cylindrical protrusion is an example of a feature that doesn't work with the Move Feature tool because it intersects more than one face of the object
    3. The Move tool opens automatically. Use the Move tool to rotate and translate the feature.
  4. Right-click and mouse through the check mark to exit, or double-right-click.