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'fully defined sketch'

'fully defined sketch'

'fully defined sketch'

(OP)
My computer died. It was exchanged by our company with one that had SW2007 ipo SW2006 that I was more familiar with. On the most primitive of sketches (a circle) when trying to extrude the circle, I am faced with an error message that states 'This operation requires a fully defined sketch'. Only thing I could find in HELP was Tools/Options/Sketch/Select fully defined sketches. This was already checked but I unmarked it and then remarked it. No help.
Will someone please lead me to a solution?
11991

RE: 'fully defined sketch'

Um, why did you re-mark it?  If you want to be able to use under-defined sketches to create features, this checkbox must be un-checked.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

RE: 'fully defined sketch'

Right, that sounds like you put yourself back where you started.  Any problems when it remains unchecked?

 

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people who value security over freedom will soon find they have neither.

RE: 'fully defined sketch'

11991,
Are you not placing dimensions to the circle and its centre point ... or adding constraints to both to fully define the circle?

Some while ago, I did some work for a company whose SW users used very few (if any) dimensions in their sketches. Instead, they relied upon the associated dialogue boxes to 'control' the entity dimensions and orientation. I suspect that is what is happening here.

cheers

RE: 'fully defined sketch'

CBL,
Wow, did you train 'em, or just get outta there as quick as possible?

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

RE: 'fully defined sketch'

It was a bit of a delicate situation. The worst offender was one of the owners who, although he freely admitted he was self-taught and was 'probably' not using best practice, he was visibly hurt when I started to point out just how bad his practices were. His end design (a Mass Spectrometer) was extremely good, but how he designed the parts was, to put it mildly, bloody awful. (filling in holes, adding material only to cut it away later, using sweeps instead of revolves, sweep-cutting to remove a sweep extrude shocked, etc)

I did offer to give them training, but it would have to be outside of normal business hours, and as they were an hours drive away would have made for some long days. They said they would get VAR training "when time allows". Yeah, right!

cheers

RE: 'fully defined sketch'

Sounds like an ideal package for that type of work environment would be a non-parametric, non-history-based one.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

RE: 'fully defined sketch'

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Sounds like an ideal package for that type of work environment would be a non-parametric, non-history-based one.

I wonder what is going to happen if one of these new 3d modelers take hold.  Will we have a Sketch Up environment where designers push and pull without regard to standard cutting tools or design for manufacturability considerations?  And no history tree to go back and show them where they went wrong in DFM principles.

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