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Re: Can I hide construction lines, or dimensions, while viewing a sketch?
It might be worth considering to make the sketches easier to read by adding differentiating properties to sketch items. I cannot see why it should be necessary to have dimensions, construction lines and 'real' lines all appear in black. If construction was a lighter colour, for example, and dimensions another, the 'working' geometry sketched would stand out much clearer. That should be easy and is basically already an industry standard. That has nothing to do with best practise on the user side, but with best GUI design.
Ah! And by the way: Make the difference between unconstrained and constrained more contrasting! I have been searching for a tiny unconstrained blue dot in one of my today's sketches for half an hour, again. Dark blue vs. black is not the kind of sufficient contrast required here. Why can't underconstrained not be bright orange or whatever?
Re: Center rectangle between construcion lines
My suggestion would be to spend some time learning all the sketching tools available even if they don't pertain to what you need at this very moment. and really get a feel for constraints and how they can help you get stuff like this done with ease. Introduction to Sketching. Learning contraints will pay dividends down the road on future design efforts.
For this particular example. since the rectangle is already there. You could use symmetry constraints and eliminate your 1/2 width dimensions. Starting from scratch a center point rectangle will get the job done as well.
MDesign
Re: Can I hide construction lines, or dimensions, while viewing a sketch?
@martin_kopplow
Agree more contrast would be good, I find dark-mode is better for that (same blue for underdefined but fully constrained is white so the blue stands out a lot more) so try switching to dark mode temporarily next time!
The new "profile inspector" should add some way to highlight underdefined entities instead of just "loose ends". Or maybe a filter in the constraint manager for "underdefined" would be an option?
Parametric Cycloidal Drive Featurescript
Hello,
I've made a parameterized cycloidal drive generation script that I've found very useful, and I thought I'd share it in case anyone else was interested.
I'd love any feedback 🙂
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/8b3df8cee04d69a41c0ee558/w/896df62751b78bc0bd9e2148/e/6a0d9aecc7ada0f635581c7a
Re: How to deal with adding a loft guide when sketch is broken in pieces?
Just adding, the selection UI should look something like this if you've picked correctly.
Re: Perspective View
Any update on this? I would like a default setting for this or, at least, a shortcut so I can toggle this quickly. It seems to revert to perpendicular view of its own accord which is inconvenient for those of us who prefer perspective view. Thanks!!
MannyF
Re: Announcing The Onsherpa
Great idea @EvanReese ! You are so helpful here on the forums that I'm sure you will be able to bring even more value with this new venture. Best of luck!
