This may not be a big deal to some, but I find it slightly irritating and bad practice when it coems to training. I was going through the i.get.it. tutorials today, reviewing the sketch basics to make sure there is nothing I need to add to the courses for our users.

One of the Tutorials suggests to offset an Arc and then make the end points Vertical. Seems simple enough... but its not. I did turn this into our VAR to see what they thought and it was kind of rubbed off as thats just the way it is. If this is the way it is then there is something wrong IMO.

Problem One:

I have attached a video of the part I was working on. You can see the Sketch Arc that is fully defined and then you will see me offset that line **with no dimension added**. The line is Blue in color. We all know that Blue means its means under-defined... well what I have been told is that even though its blue its really defined by the offset above, because you cannot make the end points vertical at this point (notice the end points are Blue as well I was told they were Black... but I don't think I am color blind yet). I tried both sides and get an error on both.

Problem Two:

Next I can drag the left point just fine but when try the right point it won't move. There is no relationships involved but yet it will not move. To get around this. I have to delete the sketch, re-offset it again. Then drag both lines first... then you can add the relationship to both points....

My biggest compliant here is not only why do I have to do all this to get 4 points vertical to each other, but why have a sketch that is supposedly considered defined after an offset but its colored as Blue? Maybe a new color needs introduced for stuff that is not really defined, but not really under-defined, because this defeats the training aspect of telling new users that Blue is under and Black is defined and in this case we are not following either one?

Part is attached as well - tested this in both 2012 and 2013, same results for me.