Editing Tool Cross

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The editing of the machine is only possible in two-dimensional windows. If you place a new element there you cannot make out along the line of vision where the element will end up.

When creating new elements, you can determine the value of the invisible coordinate with the help of the cross. In this way you avoid that the new elements lie on the floor resp. stick onto the wall.

Before constructing a new part of your machine, you should position the cross at least in two different views in the near to the building site.

There can only be one cross at a time. When you create a new one, an existing cross will be deleted automatically. If you have fixed elements to the current cross (what is not recommended) these will be fixed to the father of the cross (usually the origin).

If you plan to create new elements inside a stripe, you shall use the cross in every case.

Even without the cross you can roughly determine the invisible coordinate if you assign the new element to a father while creating.

The cross can also be used as reference point to enter the coordinates of other elements relatively to a place in the machine. To do this click the check box ‘as reference point’.

In opposite to all the other (not turnable) elements the ‘position’ of the cross does not call the corner on the bottom left but the centre (there where the lines cross).

See also:

Common properties

Static elements of simulation

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