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Re: I have my parts mated and defined fully, but the derived sketches inside are underdefined. Is this a concern?
ALL sketches should ALWAYS be fully defined.
how concerned you should be will depend on the specifics in these files, so I will not comment on that unless we get to review the files.
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Re: I have my parts mated and defined fully, but the derived sketches inside are underdefined. Is this a concern?
The long gray sketch is derived to draw the part to the left, it was a base sketch for all. When opened it turns blue. Not a huge concern, but I like everything constrained. I was not aware of how to fully define a derived sketch, I thought it was taken care of.
Shane
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Re: I have my parts mated and defined fully, but the derived sketches inside are underdefined. Is this a concern?
derived sketches are defined the same way as any sketch - with dimensions and relations. you will need something to define the sketch's location and orientation.
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Re: I have my parts mated and defined fully, but the derived sketches inside are underdefined. Is this a concern?
To answer your question, if you have to ask whether you need to define a sketch or not, you definitely need to define it.
Once you have a lot more experience, there may be an instance where having a sketch not fully defined may be acceptable...But, those cases will be few and far between, unless you really are in a niche area (I don't do a lot of surfacing, but that may be one area).
To fully define that derived sketch, all you need to do is drag two points to coincident with the underlying sketch. I do it all the time, and it works fine.
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Re: I have my parts mated and defined fully, but the derived sketches inside are underdefined. Is this a concern?
Hi Matt, Can you explain that last sentence more "To fully define..."? I don't quite understand. Please explain where you are at when operating the points.
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Re: I have my parts mated and defined fully, but the derived sketches inside are underdefined. Is this a concern?
Take a look at this video. I make two coincident relations between the derived sketch and the originating sketch which fully defines the derived sketch. If you derived sketch is on a different plane or oriented differently, then you will need to create two constraints some other way, such as with dimensions or relations.
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