Randomly shifting lines by .0001 and scuffing entire projects seemingly at random

jayce_fry

everything is constrained, everything is exact, 72cm x 72cm x72cm x72cm. but then at random while working somewhere else, it just moves things… and refuses to log it as a change so you cant revert it or undo do it in the change log. just SOL days of work? gone.

HA went to go get a screen shot, and while ALT tabbed, not even in the soft ware it changed something else and now nothing works at all lmfao

And what did i catch it do before this you may ask? well it resized one of my sides to 71.999999999999 and made none of my lines fit anymore. then did this

Oh i guess i wont be making this for the 3rd day in a row of this exact thing happening.

thanks on shape very cool

NeilCooke

Please share the doc URL. Top tip: keep sketches to 10 lines or so, not 500. Just asking for trouble.

MDesign

Not sure what the context of all that repeated work is but generally you'd only want to do maybe 1/8 of that and then mirror/pattern the rest of it.

S1mon

It seems like you could pattern one rectangle and maybe do a couple of mirrors. Manually drawing all of that in a single sketch is not the way to go.

billy2

@jayce_fry blue dots in your sketch means it's not constrained.

You can use 3 consecutive sketches to control complex constraint schemes. If you saw the constraint matrix for your input, it's a mile long.

@NeilCooke that's a old pro/e proverb. Keep your sketches to 10 entities. I haven't heard that one for a long time.

eric_pesty

Your sketch is too complicated and you are likely hitting the limit of number of constraints within a sketch.

• Your sketch seems symmetric so I would only draw a 1/4 (or even 1/8), which would help a lot…
• Also the "staircase part" should be a separate sketch, or maybe even does as features rather than a sketch.

We might be able to point you in the right direction if we knew what you were trying to design…