CREATING THE AUXILIARY LINES

The auxiliary lines used in this project are those that make it possible to determine the center of rotation and the tangential center, which will be used later to create the model.

Creating the axes

Footnote: This option can also be found in the GiD Toolbox.

Footnote: Pressing the ESC key is equivalent to pressing the center mouse button.

Figure 2

  • Enter point (200, 0, 0) in First Point . This is the point that defines the center of rotation.
  • Click Select to select the first line we drawn.
  • After making the selection, press ESC (or Finish in the Copy window) to indicate that the selection of lines to be rotated is finished. The result is shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3. Creating the axes

Figure 4. The Copy window

Creating the tangential center

Figure 5. The line segment selected is the translation vector.

Figure 6. Result of the translation with copy

Figure 7. The auxiliary lines with tangencia center

NOTE : The Undo option allows you to undo the operations most recently carried out. If an error is made, go to Utilities->Undo ; a window appears where you can select all the options to be eliminated.