Hi,
I'm looking to create an equations driven sketch feature that will sometimes show up on one side or another of an axis/plane. The problem is that I can't find a way to explicitly make my arc stay on "the right side". I am attaching a simple part file with a sketch that exemplifies this. If I have a rectangular-like shape with an arc for one of the sides, then if D2 is toggled between something greater and smaller than D1 (flipping the sides) , then the direction of the arc is automatically flipped to the outside. How can I make the arc stay along the same edge of the "rectangle"?
Similar (same?) question: is there a way to toggle from the set of possible solutions to a series of dimensioned sketch features without triggering the overdefined/unsolvable function?
Thank you in advance
Took me a bit to figure out what you were talking about. What you want to do is prevent the flipping of the arc when the right side line of a rectangle is dragged past the left side line of a rectangle (assuming that the bottom "face" is the arc itself). Inside 1 sketch, I am not sure that you could get away with this, as the direction of the arc is flipped to its compliment.
The only way that I can get it to (sort of) work is to make the arc side in a totally separate feature (like cutting a rectangle to make it. In order to get it to work, NONE of the geometry from the cut side can be attached (constrained/dimensioned) to the geometry of the rectangle. ALL of the geometry would have to be constrained/dimensioned from the origin and planes (or reference geometry). This is because the direction of all lines involves "flips" as soon as the "right" side of the rectangle passes over the "left" side of the rectangle. If this is something that you would want to be controlled via global variables/configurations, you could link both the rectangle solid and circular cut to the same values in your equation manager/design table.