Operations

Operations modify, combine, and transform objects in your design. The toolbar shows them in groups; each button works once you have selected the parts it needs. A collapsed group shows as one button with an arrow for the rest. Every operation is also in the Properties panel’s Action menu and in the right-click Modify menu.

Before the groups, the toolbar has Arrange All Parts, then Lay Flat, Rebuild, Group, Ungroup and Convert to Nodes, then Duplicate and Remove.

Operation Groups

In toolbar order:

  • Transform - Move, rotate, scale, and mirror objects Transform toolbar icons

  • Placement - Align objects and fit them to specific bounds Placement toolbar icons

  • Reshape - Round, offset and deform object geometry, from two toolbar groups
    • Round & Offset - fillet, chamfer, round edges, dilate, erode and hollow out Round & Offset toolbar icons
    • Deform - curve, pinch, radial pinch, twist, plane cut and slice to path Deform toolbar icons

  • Image - Convert images to 3D objects and paths Image toolbar icons

  • Path - Operations for working with 2D paths, including extrude and revolve Path toolbar icons

  • Merge - Combine, subtract, and intersect objects to create complex shapes Merge toolbar icons

  • Duplication - Clone, Array (linear, radial and transform patterns) and Select Child Duplication toolbar icons

  • Mesh - Repair and reduce mesh geometry Mesh toolbar icons

  • Constraints - Modify Parameters, and Make Component and Edit Component (see Components)

Node Graphs

Convert to Nodes, next to Group and Ungroup on the toolbar, turns the selected parts into a node graph you wire up in the node editor. See Node Graphs.

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