SketchXpert does what?

[BARM]

Hi All,

Well I've been working with 2008 and I'm finding SketchXpert is a expert PAIN!!!! Anyone else having troubles creating sketches with SketchExpert(SE) on? I've been creating good(?) skecthes for a few years and now SE says there is one or two or three....ways that are better/more aceptable methods. What gives???

 

[JMirisola]

SketchXpert is meant to help you fix over-defined sketches. It simply provides you with various options and, I thought, was only available when a sketch was over-defined.

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
Certified DriveWorks AE

http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog

Dell M90, Core2 Duo
4GB RAM
Nvidia 3500M

 

[mjcole]

Sketch expert only fixes problems with sketches that are over constrained. It won't do your sketching for you.

Instead of you having to hunt through solutions to overdefined sketches, it does the investigations for you and shows you several methods for resolving errors such as putting a red slash through Relations or Dims that can be deleted to solve the problems. You can pick the one that best captures your design intent or choose to manually solve and hack and slash your way through the Display/Delete Relations tool.

Michael

 

[BARM]

Well I'm aware what it does and how it functions. In my first experience with it I wasn't in agreement with what SE considered as overdefined. Just wondering if anyone else had these same thoughts.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

I've only had experience with SketchXpert when deliberately creating overdefined geometry, just to see what it does.

Can you post some examples of situations where you and SE disagree.

 

[BARM]

Cor,

Here's my example.

I've created my sketch using the Dynamic Sketch tool. I used the vertical centerline as my mirror line. Everything looks good so far. Then I apply 3.19 dim. All is good to this point. Then I apply the 1.60 dim (dim. is crossed out by SketchXpert) cause I'll need that in my drawing and WHAMO I get a SketchXpert error. So....I try and find a way to apply the 1.60 dim. as a reference but not luck yet.

See attached dwg.
Thanks,
Brent

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[BARM]

Okay, I got it.

I changed the 1.60 dim. to be a DRIVEN dim.

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