moving a gear around in the project ctrl screen

[Tak]

Hi, I'm newbie to this forum,
I just purchased the program and I'm trying to work out how to use this program.
Here's my first question.
 How to move the gear that already engaged to the another one in the project Ctrl screen?

Thanks,
Tak

[ArtF]

Hi Tak:

  You can not do that. You CAN delete a gear, and replace it by right clicking on the gear in the tree and selecting delete..b ut all gears forward from that gear will also go away. When you build a mechanism, each gear you place bcomes locked and is set to that position unless deleted, and since all following gears depend on that gear being that size and position, all forward gears delete with it.

Thx
Art

[Brian Decker]

I ran into this a few times - and at first I thought it was a negative.  However - since as is pointed out changing one gear will affect all the subsequen t gears and shafts it is a good approach.

[ArtF]

Brian:

  Thx.  The main reason it cant be done is that to do so woudl require me to ask dozens of questions about recenteri ng, remeshing ..etc.. Once that pandora's box of options
would be opened, GM woudl start to be a lot more complex to use than it is. I try to keep it simple, that has limitatio ns, but their usually worth it.

Art