I am transitioning from other design software and am struggling with differences in this software's behavior from what I have grown accustomed to.
In sketch mode, I have enabled the setting "Enable on-screen numeric input on entity creation" which (finally) allows me to rapidly dimension known variables without the pain of trying to carefully maintain cursor position while I enter values.
Once I have my shape, lets say a rectangle, dimensioned from this input, any number of other relations can completely nullify the fact that I have entered a specific value. I make a rectangle, 20x40 mm. If I then tell one edge of the rectangle to be collinear with another feature, It will re-size my rectangle moving only that line, and now my rectangle is no-longer 20x40mm.
This is rather frustrating.
I hope there is a setting to make a "dimensional input" act as a driving dimension, but I am unable to find the option to make this so, or the right search terms to discover it.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Dave
David,
In addition to "Enable on screen numeric input on entity creation", you also need to have "Create dimension only when value is entered" checked. That will place a driving dimension when you enter a value.