About the Advanced Robot

The advanced Robot lets you manipulate the position and orientation of components with enhanced possibilities.

The advanced Robot allows you to:

Translate entities
Rotate entities
Scale entities
Translate entities along cage lines
Translate entities along their normal

Note: The behavior of the advanced robot is subject to enhancement in the upcoming releases.

This page discusses:

Robot Display
Robot Handles
Advanced Options

Robot Display

The advanced Robot is available on the Subdivision context toolbar. Select one or more entities in the work area to display the context toolbar.

Note: The Robot is displayed at the center of the selected entities.

Robot Handles

The Robot is composed of four handles:

Axis arrow
Dot
Center
Arc

Once selected, the handles turn blue and let you manipulate the position and orientation of the components.


Handle	Action
Axis arrow	Drag the axis of the Robot to move the component linearly in that direction. The orientation of the component is not modified. Note: Drag the ruler to display incremental values. The ruler shows rounded values.
Dot	Drag the dot at the end of the axis arrow to scale the component linearly along the axis. Note: Multiple dots can be selected. Click the dots to select them or to cancel the selection. Selected dots appear in blue. Drag one of the dots to scale the component along the selected axes.
Arc	Drag an arc on the Robot to rotate the component along a plane. The component rotates around the Robot center but its position is not modified. Note: Drag the ruler to display incremental values. The ruler shows rounded values.
Center	Drag the center of the Robot to modify the position of the component. The orientation of the component is not modified.
Cage line arrow	Drag the arrow from a cage point to move the component along that direction. The orientation is not modified. Note: Click the Translate along cage line option to display the cage line arrows.
Normal arrow	Drag the normal arrow to move the component along its normal. The orientation is not modified. Note: Click the Translate along local normal option to display the normal arrow.

Advanced Options

The advanced options let you move subdivision surfaces, edges, and vertices using specific handles.

Note: You cannot select a whole subdivision object when using the advanced Robot. The rectangle selection trap is not available in this context.


Option	Direction	Handle type
Translate selected entities	x, y, or z-axis	Axis arrow Center
Rotate selected entities	xy, yz, or zx plane	Arc Center
Scale selected entities	x, y, and z-axis	Dot Center
Translate along cage line	Cage line	Cage line arrow
Translate along local normal	Entity normal	Normal arrow

Tip: You can invert the normal of a subdivision entity. For more information, see Reversing the Normal of a Subdivision Face.

The ruler is displayed when using the Translate selected entities, Rotate selected entities, and Translate along local normal options. For more information, see Moving Objects with the Robot.

Axis Representation

When using the Translate along entities, Rotate along entities and Scale along entities options, the rotation or translation axes are represented by dotted lines or circles.

Hover over the handles to display the axis representation.

Note: The axis representation is also visible during the translation or rotation of the object.

The colors of the x, y, and z axes correspond to the axis colors of the reference triad.


Axis	Color	Result
x-axis	Red
y-axis	Green
z-axis	Blue

For more information, see Work Area.