Nudging the Movement Handle

Once a drag has been started using the primary or secondary mouse button, you can finely adjust the positioning of the selected Components using hotkeys. You can ‘nudge’ the manipulation handle when dragging in a linear direction, using the numeric keypad + and - keys. This moves the handle by + or - the current linear increment.

In a similar way to nudging a Component you may nudge the position of the handle both by the default linear increment for major positioning, and by a fine value for accurate positioning (for example, clearance from surfaces). To facilitate this a ‘fine nudge’ setting is available, where the granularity of the movement is less than that of the current linear increments.

Linear increments are controlled from the Set Increments form, see the Design online help for details.

Similar to the nudging using the + and - hotkeys, the fine adjustment uses the arrow keys on the numeric keypad (or the numeric keypad 2 and 8 keys when Num Lock is ‘off’).

Once a nudge has been performed, then dragging has no effect, but the mouse key must be kept held down. Nudging restricts the movement within bounds of the leg or segment of leg that the selected Components are within. Nudging does not take the selected Components past an inline Component or change in direction.