Sketcher ToggleDrivingConstraint: Difference between revisions

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Internal alignment

Activate/deactivate constraint

Sketcher

Menu location
Sketcher ToggleDrivingConstraint
Sketch → Sketcher constraints → Toggle driving/reference constraint
Workbenches
Sketcher
Default shortcut
K X
Introduced in version
0.16
See also
Sketcher Toggle Construction

Description

The Toggle driving constraint tool turns dimensional constraints (Lock, Horizontal/Vertical distance, Length, Radius and Angle) into reference mode, and back. The icons in the toolbar turn blue, and rather than dimensional constraints, reference dimensions are created. Reference dimensions do not constrain the sketch. It can be useful to create reference dimensions in a sketch as a way to check on measurements; when given a name, they can also be used to drive constraints in another sketch through expressions.

The Sketcher Constraint toolbar with the dimensional constraints in reference dimension mode (blue).

A horizontal distance constraint (50 mm), a vertical constraint (30 mm) and an angle constraint (75°) were set to define the profile; a reference dimension was added on the slanted line segment to know its length (31.0583 mm).

Usage

Press the Toggle driving constraint button. The dimensional constraints icons in the Sketcher Constraints toolbar turn from red to blue.
The usual method of creating dimensional constraints works the same, but a blue reference dimension is added instead.
To turn the Sketcher Constraints toolbar back to constraint mode (red), press the Toggle Constraint button again.
To turn a dimensional constraint into a reference dimension, or the reverse, select it and press the Toggle Constraint button.

Internal alignment

Activate/deactivate constraint

Sketcher

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Sketcher constraints:
- Geometric constraints: Coincident, Point on object, Vertical, Horizontal, Parallel, Perpendicular, Tangent, Equal, Symmetric, Block
- Dimensional constraints: Lock, Horizontal distance, Vertical distance, Distance, Radius or weight, Diameter, Auto radius/diameter, Angle, Refraction (Snell's law)
- Constraint tools: Toggle driving/reference constraint, Activate/deactivate constraint

Sketcher tools: Select unconstrained DoF, Select associated constraints, Select associated geometry, Select redundant constraints, Select conflicting constraints, Show/hide internal geometry, Select origin, Select horizontal axis, Select vertical axis, Symmetry, Clone, Copy, Move, Rectangular array, Remove axes alignment, Delete all geometry, Delete all constraints

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+{{Caption|A horizontal distance constraint (50 mm), a vertical constraint (30 mm) and an angle constraint (75°) were set to define the profile; a reference dimension was added on the slanted line segment to know its length (31.0583 mm).}}
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+# To turn the Sketcher Constraints toolbar back to constraint mode (red), press the Toggle Constraint button again.
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