Hello,
I am at my supplier's computer trying to show him our model. They have 2008 on their machine and I'm working with 2007 on ours. His version opened my part just fine, but when I went to show him a sketch of a feature, it showed all my lines as being underdefined, which I was sure they weren't. Long story short... after experimenting a little I determined that "horizontal" and "vertical" seem to no longer have an application with lines in 2008??? Is this right? A bug or something different?
Here's what I did:
Open new part. New sketch. Draw a line. Add horizontal (or vertical) relationship... does nothing. Still shows as underdefined. Physically move the line and now its "over defined" because of the horizontal relationship.
What's up?
They use AutoCAD here almost exclusively so they aren't that familiar and they just got 2008. So do they have a bad install, is there a bug we should know about, or is there a different/better way of defining a horizontal line?
I know I can just fix the lines, but that seems awkward to me. Thanks.
- Steven
I am at my supplier's computer trying to show him our model. They have 2008 on their machine and I'm working with 2007 on ours. His version opened my part just fine, but when I went to show him a sketch of a feature, it showed all my lines as being underdefined, which I was sure they weren't. Long story short... after experimenting a little I determined that "horizontal" and "vertical" seem to no longer have an application with lines in 2008??? Is this right? A bug or something different?
Here's what I did:
Open new part. New sketch. Draw a line. Add horizontal (or vertical) relationship... does nothing. Still shows as underdefined. Physically move the line and now its "over defined" because of the horizontal relationship.
What's up?
They use AutoCAD here almost exclusively so they aren't that familiar and they just got 2008. So do they have a bad install, is there a bug we should know about, or is there a different/better way of defining a horizontal line?
I know I can just fix the lines, but that seems awkward to me. Thanks.
- Steven
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Anyway, just in case... I looked at the options and that one is checked.
I must not have explained the issue correctly. I have no problem defining a line as being horizontal. "horizontal" shows up in the relationship list and the appropriate icon is on the sketch. However, the line is still blue and "under defined" and I can still rotate it as though "horizontal" means nothing. The same applies for "vertical".
Step by step:
1) Open new part. Start a sketch
2) Click line tool. Position at the origin and draw a line (so it is coincident with origin)
3) in the relationship box, choose horizontal.
Line stays blue. Stays underdefined. But it is (should be) now fully defined and should be black and immovable.
- Steven
This "bug" (if it is) only applies to center (construction) lines of infinite length. See attached screenshot. In my 2007, infinate or not, I could certainly declare it as horizontal and it would be black (at least if properly anchored as shown) and immovable.
- Steven
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Edit: I take that back. I just tried it in 2007 and it was fully defined.
Regards,
I'm curious though, why are you using them? Are you creating infinitely long parts?
Anyway, he says they've never installed a service pack. That could be the issue. Thank you for confirming that on 3.00 it works.
Other than that, 2008 looks pretty cool! Is it worth the upgrade? Or is it more or less just cosmetic?
I created a sketch with just horizontal and coincident to origin relationships.
Mine shows up as fully defined. see attached.
As I was creating the line it showed as under defined. I deselected the line and reselected it and it showed up as fully defined.
Misty
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edit...Sorry I attached the wrong file initially. Attachment should be "fully defined.jpg"
Your right, I forgot to click the infinite length box. But if I click the fix icon, it becomes fully defined.
I would call it a bug that the horizontal relationship does not force the line to be horizontal. Vertical works correctly, this is weird.
Misty
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that Infinity itself has never really been fully defined.
I think its a bug too, but aparantly one that has been fixed (repaired) in the service releases.
- Steven