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How to remove all the horizontal and vertical constraints

gparamasivam — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 05:14:01 GMT

Hello Everyone,

How to remove the all horizontal and vertical constraints in all the sketches with single shot or automatically.

If is this possible, Kindly guide me..

Advance Thanks...

Re: How to remove all the horizontal and vertical constraints

Casey.P — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 11:07:31 GMT

Hi @gparamasivam ,

So far, the best way I figured is if you hold control and left click select the constraints that you want to delete. Once you have them all selected, just hit the delete button....

You could window drag and then deselect all of the features and constraints that you don't want to delete, but I think this section option will take longer.

Re: How to remove all the horizontal and vertical constraints

JDMather — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 11:22:34 GMT

Rotate.

Re: How to remove all the horizontal and vertical constraints

imajar — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 14:41:10 GMT

I think @JDMather solution is the best to solve your specific problem, but you can also select all the geometry, right click and select delete all constraints. The drawback, is it will also wipe out the other constraints (except coincident).

Re: How to remove all the horizontal and vertical constraints

JDMather — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 15:10:08 GMT

Can you Attach your file here?

I can't help but wonder why you would want to do this.

In 15 years of using Inventor - I have never seen this need posted here before.

Turning the sketch into a Sketch Block, might be another option...

Re: How to remove all the horizontal and vertical constraints

gparamasivam — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 15:21:43 GMT

It will delete the all parallel and perpendicular constraints also,

I need only delete the horizontal and vertical constraints

Re: How to remove all the horizontal and vertical constraints

gparamasivam — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 15:33:11 GMT

In iFeature sketches should not have the horizontal and vertical constraints because it may cause make some issue on iFeature. So we have a to do not use horizontal and vertical constraints in iFeature sketches.

Hope you will understand our issue.

Re: How to remove all the horizontal and vertical constraints

JDMather — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 15:44:47 GMT

@gparamasivam wrote:

So we have a to do not use horizontal and vertical constraints in iFeature sketches.

Hope you will understand our issue.

Ah, now I understand. And I was incorrect in my previous statement. 😮

Re: How to remove all the horizontal and vertical constraints

gparamasivam — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 18:47:23 GMT

No problem, thank you for your suggestion

Re: How to remove all the horizontal and vertical constraints

CGBenner — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 13:07:22 GMT

@gparamasivam Did the information provided by answer your question? If so, would you please use Accept Solution so that others may find this in the future? Thank you very much!

Re: How to remove all the horizontal and vertical constraints

gparamasivam — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 13:10:26 GMT

No, still I did not get the right answer

Re: How to remove all the horizontal and vertical constraints

CGBenner — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 13:29:59 GMT

@gparamasivam

Aside from the suggestions you have received here, I think you might be looking at the need to create an iLogic solution to do this automatically. I'm not certain that it is even possible with iLogic, but you could try posting in the Inventor Customization forum, maybe one of the experts there will have a suggestion.

Re: How to remove all the horizontal and vertical constraints

gparamasivam — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 13:32:36 GMT

Thank you for your suggestion

Re: How to remove all the horizontal and vertical constraints

mcgyvr — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 14:55:52 GMT

@gparamasivam

Here you go this will delete all horizontal and vertical constraints in a part in all sketches..

Dim oPartDoc As PartDocument Dim oSketch As PlanarSketch Dim geoconstraint As GeometricConstraint On Error Resume Next oPartDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument For Each oSketch In oPartDoc.ComponentDefinition.Sketches For Each geoconstraint In oSketch.GeometricConstraints If geoconstraint.Type = kHorizontalConstraintObject Then 'MsgBox ("Deleting Horizontal Constraints") Call geoconstraint.Delete Else If geoconstraint.Type = kVerticalConstraintObject Then 'MsgBox ("Deleting Vertical Constraints") Call geoconstraint.Delete End If Next geoconstraint Next oSketch MsgBox ("All Horizontal and Vertical constraints deleted!")

Re: How to remove all the horizontal and vertical constraints

gparamasivam — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 10:51:25 GMT

Thank you,

It is working and very useful to us.