Trying to go through some tutorials for this program, and need some help.
When drawing the figure shown below, starting from the lower right corner, I would like to have the right line being constrained. If I just draw the points in a counterclockwise direction, I always get the left side constrained.
Andreas, To do what I think you want you first must remove one of the dimension on the left side. To remove a dimension select shape twice and it should turn red indicating that all sides are restrained. At this point "right" click over dimension to be removed and a dialog box should appear with a "delete" option. After deleting dimension, some lines will turn blue meaning that they are unrestrained. If you deleted one of the left dimenions the top line should be blue. To restrain this line with the bottom line right click on blue line and dialog should appear with several dimensioning options. Select 'Distance option' and then pick the line to restrain it too. In your case it would be the bottom line. A dimension should be added between these two entities. Hope this helps Tom
Try this file. If it is not what you were looking to accomplish. I may need a little more information. Thanks, Tom
Probably not exactly what I wanted, but you have done a major change to the system already.
Could you give me a step by step explanation of what you did between the 2 files?
Andreas,
Your first basic mistake is that the first segment of your path was not vertical, so it is not constrained to any direction and the subsequent paths are related to the first path.
When you start a path, if your first segement is horizontal or vertical. it gets constrained to that direction and should show the Green parallel constraint indicators when you select the path twice to show the constraints.
PCS can do some clever things, but it is pretty unforgiving if you don't work carefully from the very start.
Dennis Barker.
Andreas, For your reference, I have attached for illustrations of what I did to your file. Hope this helps. Tom
Thank you very much.
Very informative, indeed.