Selecting Midpoints

You can display the midpoints by hovering over active sketch curves and external edges when snapping to them or creating constraints.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin: Create a sketch that includes a line or arc.

Midpoints with an Active Command

You can snap to the midpoint of a curve. The curve can be active sketch entity or external edge.

  1. From the Sketch section of the action bar, click a command.
  2. Hover close to the middle of a line or an arc in the sketch.
    The pointer displays a red circle when you are coincident with the line.

    The pointer displays a red triangle when you are at the midpoint.

  3. Click to select the midpoint of the entity and continue the sketch.

Midpoints Without an Active Command

You can locate, snap, and add points at the midpoint of lines, arcs, and external curves in active and external sketches, and bodies. It is also possible to infer the midpoint of a sketch curve and external edge for constraint creation when you are not in active command.

  1. In an active sketch without any sketch action bar command selected, hover close to the middle of a line or an arc in the sketch.
    The pointer displays a red dot when you are at the midpoint.

  2. Click the red dot to place a point at the midpoint. Ctrl+select this point and another sketch point or curve end point to create a constraint from the context toolbar.

    Note: Without any sketch action bar command selected, Ctrl-click two or more entities to display a context toolbar with available options for the selected entries.

  3. You can use the point entity in the following ways:
    • Fix the point.
    • Add a constraint to the point.
    • Ctrl-select the point and some other geometry to add constraints.
    • Drag the point to another point (if the constraints on the line allow such movement).
    • Drag other geometry such as a line end point to the point.

    The point is automatically removed if not used.