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How do I move a rectangle by a midpoint of a side to intersect/align with another object?

whtmountain
whtmountain Member Posts: 6 ✭
in Community Support
I'm trying to replicate a relatively simple model I did earlier today in another program in OnShape to make a comparison of the time and effort involved between them.

And I got stuck.

I sketched a centerpoint rectangle over the corner of another rectangle.  Then I needed to move the midpoint of the left side of it until it intersected another, larger, rectangle drawn around the original.

And nothing I tried would let me do that.

How do you do that?...without having to put a point out there, then draw a line the exact length you need from that point back toward the corner of the inner rectangle, and then drawing the centerpoint rectangle on that line endpoint?

Roughly shown here:

Answers

  • james_dalessandro195
    james_dalessandro195 Member, Onshape Employees Posts: 7 image
    You need to constrain or dimension it to that line. You will probably have to break some constraints to move it as it looks like it is fully constrained.
  • shanshan_xu
    shanshan_xu OS Professional Posts: 2 ✭
    whtmountain, the rectangle you want to move has been constrainted fully, all its lines and points are black, that's why you can not move it , so delete the dimension 0.4, then drag the vertex on the top left corner to the left line, then it is ok !
  • viru
    viru Member, Developers Posts: 619 ✭✭✭✭
    @whtmountain , Currently your sketch is fully defined. you have to delete 0.4 dimension as @shanshan_xu suggested. After that you can move that rectangle. kindly refer below video for more detail.

  • michael_batson254
    michael_batson254 Member Posts: 4 ✭
    Is there a way to slow down the video?  You draw it so fast, I can't figure out what you're doing.  It would be nice if it could be paused, but that would be something Onshape would have to fix.
  • dirk_van_der_vaart
    dirk_van_der_vaart Member Posts: 561 ✭✭✭
    edited October 2022
    This is a very old post, do you have problems with sketching in Onshape?
    Many try this as a start.
    https://learn.onshape.com/courses/fundamentals-sketching

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