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Discovered an erronous reference to dimension on sketch in copy/"paste as new" component

kyrreaa — Wed, 19 May 2021 19:22:57 GMT

I made a sketch in a new sub-component and referenced a dimension to another calculated dimension in it.

When I later copied this component and pasted "as new" and edited this new components sketch I discovered it had the reference to my other sketch first calculated dimension on it's secondary referencing dimension.

In first components sketch, d1 calculated values based on user parameters and d2 referenced d1.

In the copy d1_1 calculates based on same formula but d3 references d1!

I tried editing the value of d3 in second component and clicked on d1_1 in same sketch. It came up as d1. Clicking on it again it comes up as d1_1, and all subsequent clicks show d1_1 referencing the copied sketch dimension.

This has to be a bug...

Re: Discovered an erronous reference to dimension on sketch in copy/"paste as new" component

g-andresen — Wed, 19 May 2021 19:29:48 GMT

Hi,

share the file and name the elements involved.

günther

Re: Discovered an erronous reference to dimension on sketch in copy/"paste as new" component

kyrreaa — Wed, 19 May 2021 20:04:16 GMT

I had to move on due to time but my example was simplified.

It would be somewhere back in the history of my saves now.

I quickly created a new empty design and did the sketch thing as I described and it behaves a tad different. Now I sometimes get d2 and other times d2_1.

I also discovered the reason: The two sketches are on top of eachother and even though one is not visible it is possible to select through to it. So, this is just another nail in the "not enough info on what you click on"-coffin.

(Same as the hard to discover invisible constraints sometimes placed on sketches.)