{"id":203,"date":"2014-03-11T18:31:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T18:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusion360.wpengine.com\/tip-tuesday-bust-a-move-command\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T23:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T07:26:48","slug":"tip-tuesday-bust-a-move-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/tip-tuesday-bust-a-move-command\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip Tuesday: Bust a move&#8230;command"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Sure, the move command is pretty basic &#8211; the ability to move a sketch or a body to a specific location of your design environment is pretty fundamental, but what a lot of people don&#8217;t know is that it is also a very versatile <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inventor\/2017\/02\/21\/everything-need-know-direct-modeling\/\">direct modeling<\/a> manipulation tool. Yup, move over press-pull (no pun intended); this is how you do it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>1. Start a basefeature from the Create dropdown menu.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Screen Shot 2014-03-11 at 10.41.13 AM.png\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/86562i993CF6C2CB65F073\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-03-11 at 10.41.13 AM.png\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>2. Then select create box or a body of your choice.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Screen Shot 2014-03-11 at 10.57.59 AM.png\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/86568iD191948B5587DC0B\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-03-11 at 10.57.59 AM.png\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>3. Now click on a specific surface, right click, and choose move.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Screen Shot 2014-03-11 at 10.57.36 AM.png\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/86570iB7654AF08ABEEB3E\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-03-11 at 10.57.36 AM.png\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You&#8217;ll now be able to move that surface with your manipulators. You&#8217;ll also be able to angle the surface and pull it after it&#8217;s been angled by repeating the move command.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: normal; font-size: medium;\">Combine this technique with the <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: normal; font-size: medium;\">extrude command<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: normal; font-size: medium;\"> and you&#8217;ll be able to extrude your angled surfaces perpendicular to the angle you had previously set. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Screen Shot 2014-03-11 at 10.53.10 AM.png\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/86564iAC65CAB2D70A951C\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-03-11 at 10.53.10 AM.png\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Here is the command in action, as knowledgeably demonstrated by our good friend, Alex Lobos.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: normal; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/THOOCz1NajA\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">How do you use the move command? Do you find this tip useful? let us know in the comment section below!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><P><IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"tip-tuesday_bustamove.jpg\" align=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/86574i18DFAECB53066935\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"tip-tuesday_bustamove.jpg\" \/><\/P><P>Theres more to the move command than you might think. Click through to find out how you can use it as a direct modeling tool that can be more powerful than the press-pull command.&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fusion","dhig-theme--light"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tip Tuesday: Bust a move...command - Fusion Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/tip-tuesday-bust-a-move-command\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tip Tuesday: Bust a move...command - Fusion Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Theres more to the move command than you might think. 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