This is infuriating. I've copied the profile of a hinge from one part, and I want to add it to another part. All the sketch entities are properly related to each other, but I absolutely cannot place them against the edge where I want to extrude the hinge.
- If I make a line collinear with an edge, the sketch becomes overdefined.
- If I make an endpoint of the line coincident with the edge (thinking maybe the line and the edge aren't perfectly parallel?), the sketch becomes overdefined.
- If I dimension the gap between the edge and the line, there's no problem. But if I try to change that dimension, the sketch becomes overdefined.
This is ridiculous! It should be perfectly straightforward to place the sketch elements where I want them. Shouldn't it? I am so sick of these asinine bugs in Solidworks, and so looking forward to retirement (less than a year!) when I won't have to deal with this garbage any more.
For what it's worth, I'm using SW2014 SP5.0. Any ideas? Thanks.
Apply the relation you need, even though you get the sketch overdefined
Then just run the SketchXpert and eliminate the offending relation.
Alternative - post the file here.