Creating slots

1. Select the axis or face of a hole.

2. Select the RotateDesign: Using the Rotate tool to spin a design 90 degrees in the plane of the screen. You can rotate your design clockwise or counterclockwise. Object: Using the Move handle to spin an object around an axis. tool guide and click the axis of the driving cylinder.

   You can also Alt+click the axis of the driving cylinder.

3. PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. the hole to create a curved slot.

   You can pull a curved slot 360 degrees to make a round cut.

 

1. Select the axis or face of a hole.

2. Do one of the following:

   • Alt+click the face of the driving cylinder to set the direction of the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. towards the axis of the driving cylinder. Click the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. Direction tool guide and pull the hole to create a radial slot.

   • Ctrl+click the face of the driving cylinder to set the direction of the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. towards the axis of the driving cylinder. Click the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. Direction tool guide and pull the hole to offset the cylinder and create a radial slot simultaneously.

   • Select the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. arrow that points toward the axis and pull.

   If you want to lengthen a radial slot while keeping it the same distance from a radial face, Ctrl+click the radial slot's axis and the face, then pull.

   If you want to move a slot along with a radial face Ctrl+select the hole’s axis and the face, then Ctrl+pull.

1. Select an axis of a slot.

2. Hold the Alt key and select the cylinder face or face to set the offset direction.

3. Hold the Ctrl key and pull or enter a radius value.

1. Select the axis of a hole.

2. Select the SweepPull a surface or face along a line or edge using the Pull tool. You can sweep faces and edges, and select straight or curved lines or edges along which to sweep. Sweeping along a spline is a pulling technique for creating a smooth, swoopy shape. See Trajectory. tool guide.

3. Click the sweep trajectory.

   A sweep mode arrow indicates the beginning of the sweep.

4. Click and drag in the direction of the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. arrow to sweep the selected objects.

   You can also select Full PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. from the Options panelArea of the user interface that enables you to modify functions specific to tools. or the mini-toolbar to sweep the entire length of the trajectory. If you select Full PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. and the face or surface being swept is in the middle of the trajectory, it will be swept in both directions.

You can modify a hole that was dragged to form a slot by pulling on any of the slot axes.

If the slot has a rounded or chamfered edge, double-click the round or chamfer to change its dimensions.

If you select DetachCreate separate surfaces from individual pieces of a sketch, or objects or faces in 3D. You can detach protrusions to move them with the Move tool's Detach First option. first in the Options panelArea of the user interface that enables you to modify functions specific to tools., then the slot will become a solid if you use the MoveA tool used to translate or rotate geometry. tool to move it off the body, as shown below.

1. Select the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. tool.

2. Select both axes of the slot.

3. Do one of the following:

   • Alt+click the face of the driving cylinder to set the direction of the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. towards the axis of the driving cylinder. Click the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. Direction tool guide and Ctrl-drag to move the slot radially.

   • Ctrl+click the face of the driving cylinder to set the direction of the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. towards the axis of the driving cylinder. Click the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. Direction tool guide and Ctrl+drag to offset the cylinder and move the slot.

   You can also move a hole radially by pressing Shift while dragging it with the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. tool.

Right-click a face of the slot and select Remove AssociationRelationship between objects that enables you to edit them together. For example, when you pull a polygon into 3D, the faces acquire a polygon relationship. If you act on one face or edge, it affects all the faces in the polygon. Another example of an association is a mirror plane between two faces. See Mirror, Remove associations.

Any changes you make to the slot's face will affect only that face.