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constraining an eclipse

greenwoods1462 — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 11:00:20 GMT

Hello Any clues why i cannot constrain this eclipse? Sorry if it is a basic question.

Re: constraining an eclipse

TrippyLighting — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:09:18 GMT

It is constrained. I just won't turn white because the code responsible for detecting whether something is fully constrained is not 1005 robust yet.

Re: constraining an eclipse

greenwoods1462 — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 08:42:56 GMT

thank you - out of interest how did you know it was constrained is there another indicator?

Thank you for your help the fusion 360 forum is excellent the community is always very helpful.

Re: constraining an eclipse

HughesTooling — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:00:20 GMT

If you want to make the sketch indicate fully constrained, delete the 2 tangent constraints.

Drag the ellipse away from the intersection then add a single coincident constraint between the 2 points below. The tangents should also have solved as fully constrained but I guess the chain of constraints is more difficult to solve.

Re: constraining an eclipse

TrippyLighting — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:54:34 GMT

@greenwoods1462 wrote:

thank you - out of interest how did you know it was constrained is there another indicator?

If I cannot drag the non-constrained object and change is size, location, or orientation then it is fully constrained.