Translations:Engine Block Tutorial/39/en

Now that you see how to easily determine the coordinates of drawing elements you can easily design a bolt pattern or other 2 dimensional layout for a part such as fluid channels, circuit-board traces, etc. For our 3 head bolts let's on this side of the engine, let's use the following coordinates. Note that when you are typing in values to the boxes you can press enter to move on to the next box, and it is also a good idea to move your mouse out of the 3D view before you start typing in the coordinates as too much mouse movement will overwrite the numbers you have already entered in the text entry fields. Also, on my system I had trouble with the typed in circles having their Z coordinates set to 12.5 for some reason, if this is a problem for you, you can set the drawing projection plane to None and then manually enter the Z coordinates for the circles to be 110. Finally, when creating the circles, make sure to check the box labeled Filled otherwise when we extrude them later they will just create tubes like a toilet paper tube instead of a solid cylinder.