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Pivoting edges

You can pivot the edge of any solid 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's Pivot Edge3D object composed of a single outside boundary of a feature. A line sketched in 2D becomes an edge when you pull your sketch into 3D. option. You can also pivot two separate edges together when pulling in one direction.

To turn a cylinder into a cone, select the Pull tool and the Pivot Edge option. Then click the edge of the cylinder and pull it until it forms a point. To turn a truncated cone into a cylinder, click the small edge and pull it out.

To pivot an edge

1. Select the Pull tool in the Edit group on the Design2D or 3D model that contains at least one top-level component. tab.

   The Select tool guide is enabled by default.

2. Select the edge or edges you want to pivot. Double-click to select a tangent chain or edge loop.

3. Select the Pivot Edge option in the Options panelArea of the user interface that enables you to modify functions specific to tools., or from the mini-toolbar.

   The Pull arrow changes to show the two directions in which you can move the edge to pivot the connected faces. One arrow is highlighted to show the primary direction.

4. If the arrow pointing in the direction you want to pull is not highlighted, click the arrow or press Tab.

5. Drag the edge in the direction of the Pull arrow.

   During the pull, the distance you have moved the edge is displayed. You can dimension the distance in SectionDesign 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. and 3D mode, and dimension the angle in Section modeSee Section.

   You can hold Shift to snap to existing geometry.

Examples

Simultaneously pivoting multiple edges.

Pivoting two separate edges together when pulling in one direction.

Dimensioning the pivot angle.