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Sketch could not be solved - why?
Olaf_M
Member Posts: 2 ✭
I'm trying to do a very simple sketch:
Now I connect the top of the 10 mm line with the top of the 3 mm line with a straight line (line tool):
When I just hit enter to accept the 40,608 mm length, I get a 'Sketch could not be solved' message:
Why is that so? If I now hit the 'undo' button, everything turns black again and my 40,608 mm line is still there in black. Just the dimension is not shown, but can be easily added with the dimension tool. This 'problem' happens to me every once in a while and while it can easily be resolved it is still annoying. The above example is recreatable.
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bladec
Member Posts: 20 ✭✭
40.608 is rounded, If you manually calculate the hypotenuse you'll get ~40.607881008… By putting in 40.608, that bottom line has to become 40.49703… but you have constrained it to 40 so obviously this results in a conflict
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martin_kopplow
Member Posts: 1,230 PRO
This issue appears to come up time and again. Users place a line on two already constrained points and the sketch becomes overconstrained as soon as they accept the automatically placed dimension. Would it be possible to have the algorithm just NOT place a lenght dimension if it immediately lead to an overconstrained sketch? That would possibly catch most of these cases of intense headscratching while not doing much harm elsewhere.
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40.608 is rounded, If you manually calculate the hypotenuse you'll get ~40.607881008… By putting in 40.608, that bottom line has to become 40.49703… but you have constrained it to 40 so obviously this results in a conflict
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This issue appears to come up time and again. Users place a line on two already constrained points and the sketch becomes overconstrained as soon as they accept the automatically placed dimension. Would it be possible to have the algorithm just NOT place a lenght dimension if it immediately lead to an overconstrained sketch? That would possibly catch most of these cases of intense headscratching while not doing much harm elsewhere.