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See also: [https://www.freecadweb.org/api Autogenerated API documentation] and [[FreeCAD Scripting Basics|FreeCAD Scripting Basics]].
See also: [https://freecad.github.io/SourceDoc/ Autogenerated API documentation] and [[FreeCAD Scripting Basics|FreeCAD Scripting Basics]].


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Revision as of 08:32, 28 May 2021

This documentation is a work in progress. Please don't mark it as translatable since it will change in the next hours and days.

Draft SubelementHighlight

Menu location
Modification → Subelement highlight
Workbenches
Draft, Arch
Default shortcut
D E
Introduced in version
-
See also
Draft Edit

Description

The SubelementHighlight tool allows you to graphically edit certain properties of the selected object such as:

Unlike the standard Draft Edit, it allows you to edit multiple nodes of multiple objects at the same time.

File:Draft Edit Improved Example.png

Editing a wire

Usage

  1. Select an object.
  2. There are several ways to invoke the command:
    • Press the SubelementHighlight button
    • Use the D then E keyboard shortcut
    • Use the Modification → Subelement highlight entry in the Draft menu
  3. Click on all the points that you wish to move.
  4. Click another point on the 3D view, or type a coordinate and press the add point button.
  5. Press Esc or the Close button to complete the current command.

The tool mostly works on Draft objects: Draft Wires, Draft Lines, Draft Rectangles, Draft Circles, Draft Arcs, Draft Polygons, and Draft BSplines. Other object types must first be converted to these objects.

Options

Scripting

See also: Autogenerated API documentation and FreeCAD Scripting Basics.

There is no Python method to Draft Edit objects. To emulate the results of the Draft SubelementHighlight command geometric properties of objects have to be modified.