BimDrag

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Drags major faces of solids: moves the solid while preserving connections with minor faces, optionally modifies the thickness or creates a copy of the solid.
Drags minor faces, optionally connects minor faces to major faces of other solids.
Allows to reposition a BIM section.

Accessing the Command

command bar: bimdrag

menu bar: BIM | Drag

toolbar: BIM |

Quad: BIM | or

: bimdrag

Prompts you in the command bar:

Select several entities/subentities: (select a face of a solid)

Entities in set: 1

Select several entities/subentities: (select more faces, then right click or press Enter to stop selecting.)

Major faces (1) and minor faces (2).

Command Options

Option

Description

Major faces

The options are:

Drag Solid: Moves the selected solid(s), while preserving connections with other solids.
Drag Face: Moves the selected face(s) only, thus changing the thickness (width) of the solid(s).
Copy Solid: Creates a copy of the selected solid(s).

Prompts you:

Specify distance to drag solid or [Switch to drag face]:

Hit the Ctrl-key or type S to toggle between the options.

If TIPS is ON the current mode is indicated in the Tips widget:

Drag Solid:
Drag Face:
Copy Solid:

Do one of the following:

Specify a point in the drawing.
Type a value in the dynamic dimension field.
Press the TAB key to select a different reference face. The current reference face highlights.

Minor faces

Moves the selected faces, thus stretches the solid; optionally connects the selected faces to the major face of another solid.

Choose Connect to Nearest () in the Model tab of the Quad to automatically connect the selected minor face to the nearest major face of another solid.

Applying the BimDrag command to a minor face allows to:

Change the length of a wall.
T-connect a wall to another wall.
Change the height of a wall.
Connect a wall to a floor or roof slab
Change the dimensions of a slab.
Connect a slab to a wall.
Modify the dimensions of an opening.
Move a window or door vertically or horizontally, if applied to an inner face of the opening made by the insert.

If TIPS is ON the Tips widget displays:

Move:
Connect:

To move the selected face, do one of the following:

Specify a point in the drawing.
Type a value in the dynamic dimension field to move the face over a specfied distance.
Repeatedly hit the TAB key to select a different reference face to position the face with respect to a parallel face.
The current reference face highlights. All faces which are parallel to the face being dragged are recognized, the nearest first. Press and hold the Shift key when hitting the TAB key to cycle reference faces in reverse order.

Reference faces from left to right: top face of the solid / top face of the opening / bottom face of the opening / bottom face of the solid.

To connect the selected face,

Press the Ctrl-key to connect to the major face of another solid.
Prompts you:
Select one or more 3d solid faces to connect <ENTER to auto-select>:

Do one the following:

Press Enter to connect to the nearest face(s) of another solid or other solids.
Place the cursor over the face of the solid to connect to, the face highlights and the minor face being dragged connects to the face under the cursor. Click to select the face. Optionally, select more faces. Right click or press Enter to confirm.

Procedures

Creating T-connections

Creating T-connections ply-by-ply

Modifying the thickness of a solid

Modifying the height of a wall

Modifying the height of a wall ply-by-ply

Setting the distance between parallel walls

Creating a parallel copy of a wall

Creating a partial copy of a wall

Moving an insert vertically

Moving an insert horizontally

Related Commands

dmPushPull - adds or removes volume from a solid by moving a face.

dmMove - moves the selected solids, or faces or edges of a solid using a vector.