{"id":11273,"date":"2020-02-16T13:44:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T18:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/?p=11273"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:31:04","slug":"press-and-drag-commands-in-solid-edge-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/press-and-drag-commands-in-solid-edge-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Press and Drag Commands in Solid Edge \u2013 Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Press-and-Drag is different from click\nand drag in that the mouse button is kept pressed for the entire duration of\nthe command. Since press and drag operations are not obvious hence they remain\nunexplored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previous Parts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/press-and-drag-commands-in-solid-edge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Press and Drag in Solid Edge &#8211; Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/press-and-drag-commands-in-solid-edge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Press and Drag in Solid Edge &#8211; Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/press-and-drag-commands-in-solid-edge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Press and Drag in Solid Edge &#8211; Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfandcode.in\/2014\/01\/index-of-all-tutorials-on-this-solid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\"><strong>Compiled by Tushar Suradkar<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>16.<\/strong> Press and drag any supported file format directly from the Windows Explorer into Solid Edge draft. This includes DFT, DWG, DXF, PDF, BMP, PNG or JPEG files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/02\/PnD04_01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11275\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>When you insert a JPEG file, the picture\nis displayed on the sheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>17.\n<\/strong>Press and drag the border to position the frame and\nthe corner handles to resize or scale the image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"552\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/02\/PnD04_02.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11276\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>18.\n<\/strong>Trace over the image to create a symbol, then press\nand drag to add it to the Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A DFT file is automatically created for\nthe symbol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"408\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/02\/PnD04_03.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/02\/PnD04_03.png 408w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/02\/PnD04_03-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>19.<\/strong> Keep the Alt key pressed and right mouse press and drag to <em>Zoom Area<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or, keep the Control key pressed and\nusing the right mouse button, press and drag to perform a dynamic or real-time <em>zoom<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Press and drag the middle mouse button\nor the mouse wheel to <em>Pan<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/02\/PnD04_04.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11278\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>20.\n<\/strong>Press and drag to create rectangles, circles and\narcs, then drag them into position and add relations at the same time. Press\nand drag to create curves and also to adjust the shape by dragging the control\npoints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"435\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/02\/PnD04_05.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11279\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfandcode.in\/2014\/01\/index-of-all-tutorials-on-this-solid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\"><strong>Compiled by Tushar Suradkar<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next part of this article shows 5 more uses of Press-and-Drag operation in Solid Edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-fJTAh4nzZlY\/VViROZlj_DI\/AAAAAAAALhI\/pREkqI3Lqqc\/24_thumb2_thumb_thumb_thumb_thumb_th%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800\" alt=\"24_thumb2_thumb_thumb_thumb_thumb_th\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/solidedgeusers\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Join the Solid Edge User Group on Facebook<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article describes press and drag commands in Solid Edge #16 to #20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42979,"featured_media":11313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,96],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tips-tricks"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/02\/PnDTeaser04.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11314,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273\/revisions\/11314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11273"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=11273"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=11273"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}