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Table Of Contents Introduction ...........................................................................................................................................1 Getting started .......................................................................................................................................2 Tutorials .............................................................................................................................................2 Creating a flag bracket .....................................................................................................................3 Getting help........................................................................................................................................8 The SpaceClaim interface.....................................................................................................................9 Designing............................................................................................................................................. 11 Cutting, copying, and pasting............................................................................................................. 11 Detaching in 2D and 3D..................................................................................................................... 12 Undoing and redoing your actions ...................................................................................................... 12 The Move handle............................................................................................................................... 12 Orienting designs .............................................................................................................................. 14 Spinning your design...................................................................................................................... 14 Panning your design....................................................................................................................... 15 Zooming into and out of your design............................................................................................... 15 Rotating your design ...................................................................................................................... 16 Your Home view ............................................................................................................................ 16 Display a head-on view of the sketch grid........................................................................................ 17 Selecting a view............................................................................................................................. 18 Snapping to a view ........................................................................................................................ 18 Sketching.......................................................................................................................................... 20 The sketch grid.............................................................................................................................. 23 Layouts ......................................................................................................................................... 23 Dimensional sketching.................................................................................................................... 24 Points............................................................................................................................................ 26 Lines ............................................................................................................................................. 26 Tangent lines................................................................................................................................. 27 Construction lines .......................................................................................................................... 27 Rectangles..................................................................................................................................... 28 Three-point rectangles ................................................................................................................... 29 Circles ........................................................................................................................................... 29 Three-point circles ......................................................................................................................... 30 Construction circles ........................................................................................................................ 30 Ellipses.......................................................................................................................................... 31 Tangent arcs ................................................................................................................................. 31 Swept arcs .................................................................................................................................... 32 Three-point arcs ............................................................................................................................ 32 Splines .......................................................................................................................................... 33 Splitting lines ................................................................................................................................. 34 ii Table Of Contents Trimming lines............................................................................................................................... 34 Offsetting lines .............................................................................................................................. 35 Creating corners ............................................................................................................................ 35 Creating filleted corners ................................................................................................................. 36 Projecting onto the sketch grid ....................................................................................................... 36 Editing.............................................................................................................................................. 37 Editing overview ............................................................................................................................ 37 Selecting ....................................................................................................................................... 38 Editing with the Pull tool................................................................................................................. 40 Moving .......................................................................................................................................... 47 Moving in two dimensions .............................................................................................................. 48 Editing in cross-section................................................................................................................... 49 Filling ...........................................................................................................................................