How
to move, edit, or relabel an existing label or measurement.
Edit a locator
- Choose Windows > Information > Information Window
to open the information
window.
The
information window allows you to change many useful settings of
whatever objects are picked.
- Choose Locators > Move Locator .
- Click the annotation you want to edit.
- Do any of the following:
For linear and angular
locators
- Drag the locator to move it (if this
is possible).
- Drag a label to move it.
- Use the options in the Information
Window to edit the object.
For radial locators
- Drag the arrow head to move the measurement
along the curve.
- Drag the text or leader line to change
the length of the leader.
- Hold
and click off the measurement
with the middle mouse button to toggle a different display.
- Use the options in the Information
Window to edit the object.
For comb plots
- Drag the
to change the quill scale,
or drag the 
to change the quill density.
Tips and notes
- The measurements automatically update
when you move or modify the objects/locators the measurements are
attached to.
- You can extend an angle measurement beyond
the locators. The measurement draws extension lines connecting itself
to the original locators.
- You cannot add a radius measure to a
straight line.
- You can add more than one radius locator
to a curve or arc.
- When the “center of curvature” of a measurement
is displayed ( -click off the measurement
with the ), you can snap to the centerpoint
using CV/Edit Point snapping.
- Using the Radius tool
on some circles shows that they are not perfectly round. For perfectly
round circles, use rational geometry or keypoint circles. The Diameter tool only
works on perfectly round circles.
- You can get a continuous comb of radius
values along a curve using the Plot Value Radius option
of the Curve Curvature tool.
