Faces, rings and corners
Select faces, rings or corners, and keep a selection of each.
Adjust tab tools change a model by moving faces, rings or corners. Each tool’s panel starts with Pick: Faces, Rings, or Corners. The screen only shows markers for the kind set in Pick. Each kind keeps its own selection. Changing Pick does not clear the others. A tap on empty space clears the selection of the current kind. Opening the Adjust tab starts on Faces; taps on the fig and the Select bar follow it. If the tool only works on one kind (e.g., Tilt needs Rings), opening it switches to that kind.
The Steps card
Move, Tilt, and Resize run from the Steps card on the left edge of the screen. In landscape the card is in the bottom-left corner; in portrait it is at the top-left. The tool panel sets the target and direction; the Steps card has the buttons. The button labels change to match: Left / Right (Side), Back / Forward (Front), Down / Up (Up), In / Out (Out), Smaller / Bigger (Resize, Faces), Thinner / Wider (Resize, Rings), Closer / Farther (Resize, Corners or Spacing), and Tilt left / Tilt right (Tilt). Side, Front and these words are the fig’s own, from its front (Front side on Rig ).
Small, Medium, or Big sets the distance per tap. Press and hold a button to keep going. A line below the buttons shows the total distance moved since you started (e.g., 1 step right or At the start position). Blocked taps do not count. Undo or Redo updates the line to match the model. Select ─ to fold the card into the Steps tab. The tab stays folded while the selection is empty and opens on its own at your next selection. Pinch has its own button in its tool panel and does not use the Steps card. The Steps card also moves parts on the Add › Details panel.
Faces
A face is one flat side. Tap a face to select it (faces made as one side select together), drag to sweep over several faces, or tap a selected face to deselect it. The Select bar has Tap, Brush, Part, All, and None tools. Selected faces show a color tint.
Rings
A ring is a loop of edges that goes all the way around the shape. Rings shows the edge lines on the fig. Tap a line to select its ring; a tap clears the rings selected before. Drag along the fig and the selected ring follows your finger from ring to ring. Selected rings are highlighted.
To select several rings at once, turn on Grab on the Select bar. Each tap after that adds a ring to the selection; tapping a selected ring removes it. Next ▼ and Next ▲ move the selection to the ring beside it. Let go clears the selection. See Grab & Let go .
A tap selects the ring nearest to it, out of the lines you can see. If an edge is both a ring around a solid and the rim of a flat face, the tap selects the ring around the solid. A press on a line round the end of a long part (the end of an arm, a leg, or a post) selects that end’s own ring, even when the end is tilted. Turn the view so the end shows and press near its edge. Tapping the edge of a part in front selects that edge, not the ones hidden behind it. Direction does not change the ring a tap selects. Rings you have moved or tilted can still be selected, and so can the rim round a box’s top or bottom after you dome that top or bottom. Flat 2D parts have no rings and cannot be selected.
Corners
A corner is a single point where edges meet. Corners shows dots on the corners in view. A tap can also select a corner inside or behind another part (for example, inside a see-through glass part): only the corner’s own part hides it, so a part’s far-side corners can’t be selected from the front. When two dots overlap, a tap selects the one nearer you; turn the view to reach the other. The dots get smaller as the camera moves away; to tell apart corners packed close together (e.g., beveled edges), zoom in. Selected corners turn coral. Tap a corner to select or deselect it. The Select bar has Part, All, and None tools.
Kinds per tool
- Move : Faces, rings, or corners.
- Tilt : Rings.
- Resize : Faces, rings, or corners.
- Pinch : Faces, rings, or corners.
Tools open on the kind set in Pick. If that kind has nothing selected, the tool switches to a kind that does.
Selected faces stay selected across the Build, Adjust, and Color tabs, in each tab’s own color. Selected rings and corners clear when you leave the Adjust tab. Opening Add or Animate clears every selection.
Walkthroughs that use this
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