BlendSmooth and tangent transition between faces or edges; created using 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.

Circle

CombineA tool used to cut or glue geometry together.

Escape

MeasureTools for displaying measurement properties of the edges, faces, and solids in your design.

FillUse the Fill tool to simplify or clean up geometry by extending surrounding faces to eliminate a selection. The selected region is filled in or healed with the surrounding surface or solid.

Home

LineA straight line, arc, or spline drawn in Sketch mode or on a layout plane. Lines have length but no area. When you pull a sketch into 3D with the Pull tool, lines become edges.

Pull

Rectangle

Select

3D mode

Plan viewHead-on view.

Section modeSee SectionDesign2D or 3D model that contains at least one top-level component. mode in which you edit solids by working with their edges and vertices in cross-section. ViewOrientation settings that you can apply to your design, including spin, pan, and zoom. You can adjust these settings individually or you can apply one of the following preconfigured views: Trimetric, Isometric, Top, Bottom, Front, Back, Right, Left. You can also select Snap View and click a face to view it head-on. is cut away to show interior detail.

Sketch modeModeThree ways of designing: Sketch, Cross-section, or 3D. You can switch between modes at any time. for drawing in two dimensions using the sketching tools on the sketch grid. A sketch is a collection of lines and other 2D objects on a sketch grid. Sketching creates regions that can be pulled into 3D. When you pull your sketch into 3D with the Pull tool, regions formed by intersecting lines will become solids and lines will become edges.

Up To tool guide

MoveA tool used to translate or rotate geometry.

Trim Away

SpinTool used to re-orient your design in any direction, allowing you to view it from any angle.

PanMove a drawing around by dragging the drawing area around your screen; move the viewpoint laterally relative to the drawing.

Zoom

Zoom ExtentsThe outer boundaries of the objects you have drawn.

Snap viewTool used to display the head-on view of a face. You can also use the tool to "throw" the highlighted face to the top, bottom, right, or left.

Previous view

Next view

File menu

Close document

Complete

Copy

Copy Faces

Create Group

Cut

Cut Faces

Delete

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. face

Exit

Invert selection

Display next Design windowArea in the user interface that displays your model or assembly. Also known as Workspace.

Display previous Design window

Move sketch grid in

Move sketch grid out

Nudge primary (active) dimension Up by normal amount

Nudge primary (active) dimension Down by normal amount

Nudge primary (active) dimension Up by small amount

Nudge primary (active) dimension Down by small amount

Nudge primary (active) dimension Up by large amount

Nudge primary (active) dimension Down by large amount

Nudge secondary (inactive) dimension Down by normal amount

Nudge secondary (inactive) dimension Up by normal amount

Nudge secondary (inactive) dimension Down by small amount

Nudge secondary (inactive) dimension Up by small amount

Nudge secondary (inactive) dimension Down by large amount

Nudge secondary (inactive)dimension Up by large amount

New

Open

Paste

Print

Print Preview

Redo

Save

Save As

Save As New

Share As File

Save As New Version

Select all of same type as selected

Bold text

Italicize text

Underline text

Hide object

Undo

Zoom In

Zoom Out

Set spin center

Locate spin center

Clear spin center

Expand entire node in Structure treeDisplay in the Structure panel that shows you each of the objects in your design. You can expand or collapse the nodes of the tree to view the objects. You can rename objects, create, modify, replace, and delete objects, as well as work with components.

Expand selected node in Structure tree

Collapse selected node in Structure tree

Activate ComponentObjectAnything recognizable by the tools. 3D objects include vertices, edges, faces, surfaces, solids, layouts, planes, axes, and origins. 2D objects include points and lines. in a design, including the top-level design component. Each component consists of any number of objects, such as solids and surfaces, and can contain sub-components. You can think of a component as a "part." Components can be saved as a separate file. An external component is another design inserted as a component of your design. Making the component internal prevents changes from being made to the external component file. You can also create an external component by saving a component as a separate file. See Lightweight components, AssemblyHierarchy of components and subcomponents showing relationship within a design, as shown in the Structure tree. In manufacturing, a unit fitted together from manufactured parts. See Assembly tool, Component