I am trying to get a sketch fully defined. I presently have the sign in front of the sketch. For the life of me I cannot see why it is underdefined, (the sketchs are in blue). I have tried Fixed, but then I get over defined. Are there any tools that would screen this sketch and tell me what I am missing? I am working in 2006 SW.
Underdefined sketch
Dec 04, 2007
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One of the easiest ways to see what's left to move is grab a vertex and drag. See what moves, undo the move, then add proper relations. Things to look for may be that you need a horizontal or vertical on something. You may need to tie everything to the origin. Look for missing tangency, etc.
WT
I WANT TO THANK YOU, I APPLIED SOME VERT AND HORIZ RELATIONS (THAT WERE MISSING AS YOU THOUGHT!) EVERYTHING TURNED BLACK, THANKS AGAIN!
I see you allready fixed the problem... with some great advice I might add. But, I just wanted to add one more thing.. if you have any centerlines quite often you will find that your sketch is underdefined because the end lenght of the ceterline is not defined (somthing that abvously doesn't matter) the line will even apear black it will just be the endpoint that is blue.
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It is not true, at least in SW2007, that the sketch will be shown as "Under Defined" just because a construction line length is not specified. The point at the end will be blue, but the sketch will still say "Fully Defined". I believe that it has worked this way for quite a while.
Jerry Steiger
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