About the Move Tool
The
Move tool is only accessed through the
Copy and
Paste Special functions.
Use the Move tool to perform the following operations:
• Translate features, surfaces, quilts, datum curves, and axes in a direction specified by a reference. You can translate along a linear edge or curve, axis, perpendicular to a plane or planar surface, or along one of the axes of the coordinate system.
• Rotate features, surfaces, quilts, datum curves, and axes about an existing axis, linear edge, curve, or about one of the axes of the coordinate system.
• Apply multiple translation and rotation transformations in a single move feature.
• Create and move a copy of an existing surface or curve rather than move the original.
• Create and move a copy of an existing feature pattern, group pattern, and patterned pattern.
|  When you move a pattern, select the pattern leader. |
To move an item relative to its original position, you must first select the item to move, activate the Move tool, and then select the direction reference. You can also use asynchronous datums as direction references. When translating an object, the direction reference is typically a plane or edge that determines the direction in which you want to translate the moved feature. When rotating an object, the direction reference is typically an axis or edge about which you want to rotate the moved feature. The following items can be used as direction references:
• In Translate mode you can choose:
◦ Linear curve
◦ Linear edge
◦ Planar surface
◦ Datum axis
◦ Datum plane
◦ Axis of datum coordinate system
• In Rotate mode you can choose:
◦ Linear curve
◦ Linear edge
◦ Datum axis
◦ Axis of datum coordinate system
| You cannot select a coordinate system or two datum points or vertices as direction references. Instead, you can directly select an axis of the datum coordinate system as the direction reference or create an asynchronous datum axis that passes through these two datum points or vertices. |