Create holes, scale, copy and paste

create hole

Project Overview:

In this project you will learn how to use the hole feature to remove material from another shape.

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1. Drag the blue polygonal shape onto the workplane and place it in the area outlined in orange.

   Tip: You may have to scroll down the list of shapes to find the "Hexagonal Prism" shape.

2. Did you know you can change any shape into a hole tool? Yes, you sure can!

   Select the polygon by left-clicking on it, then select the Hole option in the Inspector window at the top right of the editor window.

4. Proceed to the next step.

You now have two shapes, but you need to group them to remove the hole material.

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1. Hold down the Shift button to select both objects, then click each shape with the left mouse button.

2. Group them together by clicking the "Group" button in the toolbar menu.

   Tip: If the group was successful, you will see the polygon shape removed from the gray wrench
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3. Proceed to the next step.

Zoom, copy and paste

In this project you will learn how to drag, scale and copy and paste shapes on the workplane.

We start with a blank workplane for this project, so here we go!

Add shapes to the workplane

This lesson covers the steps to scale a shape on the construction plane.

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1. First find the orange cylinder in the Basic Shapes list on the right side of the browser.

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2. Now click and drag the cylinder onto the workplane.

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3. Drop it into the area outlined in orange. good!

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4. Proceed to the next step.

repeat the process

Let's try again. Continue adding another cylinder to the workplane.

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1. Repeat the process again by dragging another orange cylinder onto the workplane of the next area outlined in orange.

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2. You already know that. here you go!

Scale your cylinder

Now this is the fun part! You'll scale the orange cylinder you just dragged onto the workplane to a height of 15 mm.

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1. Click and drag the white point at the top of the shape. Drag down to make the shape 15 mm.

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2. There you go, you get it!

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3. Proceed to the next step.

Copy and paste the last shape

Let's add one more cylinder. This time let's duplicate one of the cylinders already on the workplane.

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1. Select the cylinder to copy. It doesn't matter which cylinder you choose.

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2. Press Ctrl+C (Windows) or Cmd+C (Mac) on your keyboard to duplicate the shape.

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3. Then, press Ctrl+V on your keyboard to paste the copy onto the workplane.

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4. Drag the new shape to the area outlined in orange.

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5. Proceed to the next step.

Scale the last cylinder

The last cylinder needs to be 10 mm high.

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1. Click and drag the white point at the top of the shape to scale the shape to 10mm tall.

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2. you did it!

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3. Proceed to the next step.