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Clip and Position on Sketch
pascal_marco_berlinger
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Hi CAD-Pro's
i fight now since afew hours as a newbie to place a "Clip" on a Box.
the "point" in the red square need to be 1-2mm above the surface below it. whatever i mark it not works - how can i solve it?
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While sketching you may have "inferred" a constraint - this condition will override the dimension command. In your case, the simple solution is to just delete the two bottom lines - redraw them, being careful that there are no constraints showing, then dimension.
Pascal, I don't see any place in the sketch that you could have dimensioned from. I think what you need to do is use the Use tool and pick that flat surface as a construction line and make the measurement from it. If you don't understand post a link to your document. - Scotty
@pascal_marco_berlinger One diagnostic method for finding faults like this, is to click and hold the point that is inside the red box, and try to move it around a little bit with your mouse, noting the degrees of freedom that the lines have (do this while you are editing the sketch). If it only moves horizontally, you probably "inferred" a coincident constraint to the bottom line of the base of the clip, when you created the long line. If it moves around freely in all directions, you can simply dimension to existing geometry.
Side note; You should be able to pick a "surface"of the existing part, as one of the dimension endpoints.
Hi Scotty, I would be very happy if you could draw this for me. So I can "reverse engineer" it. Many thanks
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/af58b2c74948113d43b1efcc/w/54c287d02a8eb72e2353690f/e/a11ea80f9879cef54ea42651
did not solve it,
but enought time wasted and solved my issue without a clip