Why can’t I move the inner circle along the angled axis that it is tangent to? https://youtu.be/fQ4RkFWG0zo?si=RaNTZdR3yfF3ZxsQ

do not use the Move/Rotate Tool. Select the circle and select the midpoint, and you can move the circle.

Definitely not locked and your way worked, but that is completely unintuitive. How would an average person know to move the center point of the object you’re trying to move to the stationary object that it’s aligned to. I don’t understand why the handles of the selected object can’t be rotated to a…

Wow…great first post! Thanks, it worked perfectly.

Thanks for solving this, @Guzzi_Treiber ! However, it’s indeed not logical that the sketch adapts dynamically with respect to the configured constraints if you just use quick dragging and it does not when you use the Move/Rotate tool. There are some under-the-hood technical reasons for this right no…

Hey Peter…thanks for the reply. I’ve watched almost all of the Shapr3D videos on YouTube and didn’t see anything like TigerMike’s solution and my first instinct when I want to move something is the move tool, so I never even thought to just grab the object and move it. It would be really cool if th…

Moving a circle sketch by it’s center is fine however it cannot be moved by a specific amount. Use the Move-Rotate tool to move it an exact amount. It’s my understanding that regardless of sketch or body orientation, the Move-Rotate tool always starts its position for a true X-Y-Z movement. It’s up…

You are right absolutely about that, that’s one of the advantages of the Move/Rotate tool here. But that’s also why it’s a bit of an issue that in that case we practically refuse to move constrained sketch items, whereas when you simply drag the geometry, we try to solve the constraint set for the n…

Having now played with both methods, Mike brings up a great point in that your “guessing” the location when dragging the object, while moving the handle to a stationary, parallel object (in this case) allows the move tool to work in the expected way. @Peter , maybe in the interim the help file for t…

[image] jcclow: @Peter , maybe in the interim the help file for the Move-Rotate tool could be updated with a “Power User Tip” that points out Mike’s suggestion. That’s actually a great idea, I’ll relay it to the documentation team!

Hi Peter, I think @TigerMike has made many great videos. He is a champion in the community. His videos are excellent—short, to the point and present understandable solutions. I’m sure his 30 second videos take much longer than that to produce. With all due respect, I suggest your documentation team…

Moving circle along tangent lines

Workshop Modeling Questions

TigerMike November 28, 2023, 5:35am 2

I’ll guess that the center of your circle is locked, otherwise it does work.

How to define plane of reference for movement?

Topic		Replies	Views
How do you move a circle? Modeling Questions	16	1484	January 14, 2019
Drawing a circle > Moving drawn circle Modeling Questions	4	1793	February 14, 2017
Fixed points and unable to move things! Modeling Questions	1	70	September 19, 2025
Set a line as tagent in it center to a design point of a circle Modeling Questions	13	307	June 13, 2024
ミラーモードにおけるスケッチ移動 Win10 Modeling Questions	8	123	May 16, 2025

Moving circle along tangent lines

Related topics