--- title: "Move a hole or a cut you placed" description: "A hole, a cut or an added tab stays editable after Apply in SpeakCAD: retype its distances from the face's edges, tap Move and then the new spot, or drag its handle. Moving a hole 10 mm is 1 tap and 1 typed number, measured." canonical: https://speakcad.com/guides/move-a-hole-or-cut published: 2026-10-05 updated: 2026-10-05 publisher: SpeakCAD --- # Move a hole or a cut you placed > A hole, a cut or an added tab stays editable after Apply in SpeakCAD: retype its distances from the face's edges, tap Move and then the new spot, or drag its handle. Moving a hole 10 mm is 1 tap and 1 typed number, measured. The test print came back and the hole is 10 mm too far left. In a mesh editor that means filling the old hole and drilling a new one. In SpeakCAD a hole you placed is a feature with a position, and moving it is a number, a tap or a drag. Three ways, and when to use each. ## Steps 1. **Select the hole, the cut or the tab.** Tap it on the model (for a hole, tap its wall), or open Hand edits in the toolbar and pick it from the list. Its card opens with its Position rows above its sizes. 2. **To move it by an exact amount, retype a distance.** Change Centre 6 mm from the left edge to 16 and it moves 10 mm. After a short pause the part rebuilds as a new version, and the chat says Moved Hole 1: centre 16 mm from the left edge, 6 mm from the front edge. 3. **To move it by eye, tap Move and then the new spot.** Tap Move on its card, then tap the model where it should go. Its Position rows show where it landed, ready to round to a clean number. 4. **Or drag its handle.** With the edit selected, drag the handle on the model; the Position rows follow the handle while you drag, and the move lands when you let go. 5. **Undo if it was better before.** Every move is a numbered version. Undo puts the edit back where it was; Remove on its card takes it away altogether. ## Three ways to move it **Retype a distance.** The exact way. A hole, a cut or an added tab placed on a flat face has two Position rows on its card, each a distance from an edge of that face to its centre: **Centre 6 mm from the left edge**, **Centre 6 mm from the front edge**. Type 16 in the first and the hole moves 10 mm to the right. The part rebuilds after a short pause, as a new version, with a line in the chat ("Moved Hole 1: centre 16 mm from the left edge, 6 mm from the front edge"). Measured on the editor: **1 tap and 1 typed number** (tap the hole, type 16). **Tap Move, then the new spot.** The quick way when the drawing says "about here". Tap **Move** on the edit's card, and the next tap on the model is its new place. The Position rows then show the distances it landed at, so you can round them to clean numbers. **Drag its handle.** With the edit selected, a handle sits on the model; drag it and the Position rows follow, read-only while you drag. Let go and the move lands as one version. ## Selecting the edit again A hole is selected by tapping its wall, a tab by tapping the tab, a cut by tapping inside it. When it is small or hidden, **Hand edits** in the toolbar lists every hole, cut, tab, text, extrude and rounding on the model; pick one and its card opens. On a phone the card opens as a sheet from the bottom. ## What moves with it, and what does not The edit moves on its face: its size, depth and angle stay as they were. A cut or a tab turned with an Angle keeps its angle, and its position is still its centre. Copies made with **Duplicate** in a row or a grid move with it and keep their spacing; a mirror image moves the opposite way, and copies in a circle keep their centre. Making the part under it longer does not drag the hole along: after resizing the part, check the hole with **Measure** and retype its Position if it should have moved too. If the AI later rebuilds the part an edit sits on under another name, the edit comes loose, and **Hand edits** offers **Place again** for it. ## Edits added before 5 October An edit placed before Position rows existed has no distances from the edges on its card, so retyping them is not one of its ways to move. ## Related [Put a hole at an exact distance from the edge](/guides/hole-at-exact-distance-from-edge) covers the first placement, and [Rotate a slot or a rectangle](/guides/rotate-a-slot-or-rectangle) the other number a cut or a tab can change. ## What it costs Shaping a part by hand (a hole and its screw head, a cut, an added tab, raised or engraved text, an extruded face, rounded corners, and copies in a row, a grid or a circle) and downloading what you shaped are free. Each AI request spends 2 credits, a download of AI work 4 credits, and G-code 5 more. Moving an edit is a hand edit like placing it: free, as often as you like. ## About SpeakCAD SpeakCAD is the most intuitive CAD for 3D printing: tap a face and type a size to shape a part with simple tools, or describe it to the AI, on your phone or computer, and download a print-ready STL, 3MF or G-code sliced for your printer. SpeakCAD works inside ChatGPT and Claude as a plugin (an MCP server): ask the assistant for a part with its measurements and SpeakCAD's own CAD AI designs it, shows it in 3D in the chat and hands over a print-ready STL, 3MF or G-code sliced for your printer. - Live demo, no account: https://speakcad.com/demo - In ChatGPT, Claude and other MCP clients: https://speakcad.com/chatgpt-plugin, https://speakcad.com/claude-connector, https://speakcad.com/mcp-server - Pricing: https://speakcad.com/pricing - FAQ: https://speakcad.com/faq - Site index for AI assistants: https://speakcad.com/llms.txt