Sketcher ConstrainPointOnObject

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Constraint PointOnObject

Menu location
Sketch → Sketcher constraints → Constrain point onto object
Workbenches
Sketcher, PartDesign
Default shortcut
Shift+O
Introduced in version
-
See also
Constraint Coincident

Description

Affixes a point onto another object such as a line, arc, or axis.

Usage

This command affixes a point (endpoint of line/arc or center point of arc/circle) onto another object (line, arc, circle or axis).

Note : The order you select the line and point does not matter. The point will always move to line. The line remains fixed.

Scripting

The constraint can be created from macros and from the python console by using the following command:

Sketch.addConstraint(Sketcher.Constraint('PointOnObject',LineMoving,PointOfLineMoving,LineFixed))

where :

  • Sketch is a sketch object
  • LineMoving is the number that designates the line, which contains the point that has to be moved onto the LineFixed (The line which is fixed)
  • PointOfLineMoving is the number of the vertex of line LineMoving, that has to be moved onto the LineFixed
  • LinedFixed is the number of the line to be affixed onto the point PointOfLineMoving

How to indentify the number that designates lines and points ? Please refer to the scripting part of this wiki page.