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New Sketch Constraints

davebYYPCU — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:36:56 GMT

What happened to my preferences in sketching, I prefer and believe many years ago I had the option and selected Horizontal / Vertical as my preferred auto constraining preference.

Tonight a Centre rectangle now has 1 horizontal, 1 perpendicular and 4 parallel constraint icons, (cluttered)

instead of 2 horizontal / 2 vertical.

Edit Two Point rectangle has my preferences, so may not be any recent changes.

How to return to my default preference. Nothing in preferences or Preview preferences.

Basic Licence, Windows 10. Auto Constrain icon is not present in Sketching Ribbon menu.

Help....

Re: New Sketch Constraints

HughesTooling — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:27:13 GMT

As far as I know it's always been like this. The advantage is you can delete the single horizontal constraint and easily rotate the rectangle. Three point rectangle uses the same set of constraints as well.

Here's a file from 2015 with a centre point rectangle.

Re: New Sketch Constraints

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:39:52 GMT

@davebYYPCU wrote:
...and believe many years ago I had the option and selected Horizontal / Vertical as my preferred auto constraining preference.

@davebYYPCU

Were you by chance using Inventor many years ago (it gives you this option preference)?

Re: New Sketch Constraints

davebYYPCU — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:56:21 GMT

Yes I was using Inventor, became unavailable, before Fusion - changed over 2017.

I have probably used 2 point way more often even around the Origin, but seemed like a lot of clutter turned up tonight.

Thanks All.