topic Re: centering 2 vertical lines on 1 horizontal line in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

centering 2 vertical lines on 1 horizontal line

ktnalive — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 03:35:40 GMT

Hi, I am new to Fusion, so I went to YouTube to find a video and in it, it told me how to center 2 vertical lines (3/4" apart) to a horizontal line. Yet since the video is a couple of years old it did not work as suggested by the video author. He said, "Draw a rectangle somewhere close to the middle vertical to the horizontal line at the top." So I did. Then he said, "Draw 2 horizontal construction lines." I did that too (please see the picture to better understand what is being said here.) Then he said to click on the first line then [shift] click on the second line, before clicking on the EQUAL constraint. Following his instructions to the "T" nothing worked. So I looked for other ways to center the 2 vertical lines on the horizontal line, yet found none, thus I ask for your help.

Re: centering 2 vertical lines on 1 horizontal line

laughingcreek — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 04:35:44 GMT

there's no equal constraint shown in your pic, so I guess you didn't get it applied. activate/click on the equal constraint (you'll know it's active because there will be a glyph that looks like an equal sign next to the cursor), then click on each of the construction lines.

Re: centering 2 vertical lines on 1 horizontal line

Drewpan — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 09:43:54 GMT

Hi,

I would strongly recommend that you do the embedded tutorials in the Fusion Documentation and also some of the

Self-Paced Learning to help you to learn fusion faster and better. They can be found here:

It is also much easier for the forum to help you if you attach your file AND a screenshot of what you want to achieve

and what the problem is. You can create a file to export like this:

Time spent on the tutorials and self paced learning will not be wasted. Also check out the three RULES that are pinned to the forum for further guidance.

Cheers

Andrew

Re: centering 2 vertical lines on 1 horizontal line

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:10:59 GMT

@ktnalive

Can you File>Export your *.f3d file to your local drive and then Attach it here to a Reply?

Re: centering 2 vertical lines on 1 horizontal line

ktnalive — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 07:34:47 GMT

Here is the *.f3d file. Forgive me; at first, I did not know I could save a file to share onto my computer; otherwise, this would have been done earlier.

Re: centering 2 vertical lines on 1 horizontal line

ktnalive — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 07:40:25 GMT

No, I was not able to. I have attached here a f3d file for everyone to look at.

Re: centering 2 vertical lines on 1 horizontal line

yqliu — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 07:59:46 GMT

I think the problem is you accidently added a middle point constraint between the vertical line and the top horizontal line, and so you can not add equal constraint any more. Please delete the middle point constraint and see if it helps:

(view in My Videos)

Re: centering 2 vertical lines on 1 horizontal line

TheCADWhisperer — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:10:41 GMT

@ktnalive wrote:
He said, "Draw a rectangle somewhere close to the middle vertical to the horizontal line at the top." So I did.

@ktnalive

Ha, he should have said be careful not to snap to the middle. Close, but not on the midpoint.

Once you finish this - Attach the file and I will show you an even better way.

Re: centering 2 vertical lines on 1 horizontal line

g-andresen — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:10:49 GMT

Hi,

Avoid overlapping lines.
I show some of these in the screencast.

(view in My Videos)

When dimensioning, only one end point is ever picked, which leads to an undefined sketch and can subsequently cause problems.

günther

Re: centering 2 vertical lines on 1 horizontal line

ktnalive — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 04:49:51 GMT

I implemented both suggestions by removing my vertical lines and subsequently redrawing them to ensure they were properly constrained.

Thanks to everyone who helped.

Re: centering 2 vertical lines on 1 horizontal line

ktnalive — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 04:56:25 GMT

I apologize for not addressing your question earlier. However, I have followed your suggestion and successfully uploaded the file.