Move Points (PE)

Plant Engineering > Part Tools > Move points

This function is identical to the same-named 3-D function at 3-D Standard > Process > MovePts, that enables you to model 3-D parts by moving individual points.

This function is very useful if you want to modify the layout of a pipeline. The following example is intended to demonstrate the function. Let us assume that a guideline was drawn and parts placed as shown below:

Now, let us assume that you need more space to the left of part A, in order to insert another part between part A and the guideline corner. In other words: You want to lengthen the guidelines (1) and (2) to the right, and also move the U-shaped section to the right of (1) and (2) together with its parts A, B and C in X-direction.

Proceed as follows:

Set the appropriate projection, in this case Top view is suitable.
Select the Move points function.
Draw a selection rectangle around the parts A, B and C, as shown in the image below. Right click to confirm your selection.
Now specify whether the function should only move elements of the active part or all elements contained in the rectangle.
For Displacement vector (..) Start point: select, for example, the start point of the guideline (1), and for Displacement vector (..) End point: the end point of the guideline (1), to specify the direction of the displacement vector.

Part Tools (PE) • Plant Engineering Functions

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