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Replacing Dangling Offset Sketch entities

Replacing Dangling Offset Sketch entities

Replacing Dangling Offset Sketch entities

(OP)
Hi All,

I've got a fairly complicated sketch which contains a number of offset sketch entities.  Unfortunately I needed to make some modifications to the geometry earlier in the history and the offset entities lost their references.  I have had success before simply re-directing dangling coincident and dimension references before, but I can't seem to figure out how to redirect the offset entities.  

I would really hate to re-create the entire sketch, as I am sure that it will make more lost references later in the history as well.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Ray
 

RE: Replacing Dangling Offset Sketch entities

There was a thread on this a little while back. I believe the conclusion was that a dangling offset dimension cannot be re-established ... unless one particular method of creating the offset was used. I don't remember which method that was though.

RE: Replacing Dangling Offset Sketch entities

(OP)
Thanks for the comment.  I think I'm resigned to fixing it the hard way.  

I have come up with a slightly better work around, which is to create a sketch immediately before the current one in the history, convert the entities that I had originally offset.  Then offset them the proper distance.  I can now blow away the dangling references and provide co-linear/co-radial references to the newly offset sketch.  

By converting the original entities and then offsetting them, I can simply reassign co-linear an co-radial references to the converted entities if the geometry changes again.  

A little bit of a hassle, but certainly easier than re-creating the sketch.

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