Under Defined Drawings
Under Defined Drawings
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Hi, I'm making a drawing of a finished piece, I entered all the dimensions I see are relevant, but SW still says the drawing is under defined.
Is there a simple way to know what measurement is missing?
Using the autodimension makes the drawing unreadable, thats why I avoid it.
Thanks
Is there a simple way to know what measurement is missing?
Using the autodimension makes the drawing unreadable, thats why I avoid it.
Thanks






RE: Under Defined Drawings
I think the under defined message in the status bar is left over from sketch mode. Since you can sketch on a drawing, you are in sketch mode.
RE: Under Defined Drawings
RE: Under Defined Drawings
This can happen more often than not when heavily editing sketches. Tangent & vertical/horizontal constraints can get lost somewhere.
Eddy
RE: Under Defined Drawings
RE: Under Defined Drawings
see Arevas comment.
I am assuming that you are talking about sketching to create a part?
What i tend to do is (as an example)
when drawing a part , is set it up so that the origin is the center of the part (where possible)which makes it easy to mate as well
and set up for patterning.
cheers
RE: Under Defined Drawings
If you look at the bottom right hand side of the screen you will see a "Status bar" which shows the cursor position, "Under defined", "Editing sheet" & the drawing scale.
As Melam pointed out, the drawing always shows "Under defined". This is probably because the views are never fixed ... they can always be moved around on the sheet.
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RE: Under Defined Drawings
I wouldn't worry much about it. Just be careful if you add extra items (like center lines, axes,...), to fix them properly (with geometric constraints or adding dimensions - in this case put them in a hidded layer). This way, if you change the part, these items will move accordingly.
Regards
RE: Under Defined Drawings
RE: Under Defined Drawings
PEU the confusion has arisen because you quoted “autodimension” which is only available in part/assembly sketching mode (sldprt/sldasm). I assume you meant “insert model dimensions” which applies only to 2D drawings (slddrw).
Eddy
RE: Under Defined Drawings
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RE: Under Defined Drawings
I will have to try that on Monday at work.
I have 2005 there & 2004 on my home PC.
Must read the what’s new PDF again. I missed that one.
Eddy
RE: Under Defined Drawings
I have not had any problems using this method.
Best Regards,
Jon
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