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Inventor cannot constrain or dimension reference or fixed geometry

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 17:17:43 GMT

I am having the same problem. I have attached a screenshot. I want these two line to be together. I tried constrains but non works. Help me out!

Re: Cannot constrain or dimension reference or fixed geometry

mdavis22569 — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 14:00:11 GMT

Hi and welcome ..

I would recommend starting a new post ...and attaching the file

Mike

Re: Cannot constrain or dimension reference or fixed geometry

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 14:08:36 GMT

Why start a new post when this one was never resolved. This bug has been fixed before and has resurfaced, why can't it be fixed again?

Re: Cannot constrain or dimension reference or fixed geometry

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 14:52:09 GMT

To resolve this issue will require a repeatable behavior.

I have not see an actual file attached here that demonstrates the issue.

It seems like those raising the issue quickly abandon any effort to resolve the issue.

The screen capture that @Anonymous posted looks very suspect to me.

Looks like a different issue to me. (How can two fully defined sketches be constrained to each other?)

But then I only have a pretty picture to go by....

Re: Cannot constrain or dimension reference or fixed geometry

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 14:54:40 GMT

These two lines are large arcs zoomed in very very deep. I applied constraints but they didnt work. So I simply closed the loop by connecting the geometry with a line.

Re: Cannot constrain or dimension reference or fixed geometry

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 15:04:35 GMT

....and still no file.

So what was the real issue?

Re: Cannot constrain or dimension reference or fixed geometry

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 15:31:51 GMT

It can happen to any weldment, so the file is not important. It doesn't happen every time you open it though, that is the problem. Not everyone is comfortable sending proprietary drawings, for dubious results. The demanding files sent is a cop out, not a reason for not investigating.

Re: Cannot constrain or dimension reference or fixed geometry

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 16:37:06 GMT

My only interest is the file from Post 14 as I think it is a different problem than anything in the rest of this thread and with the file I think the issue (in that particular post) can be logically explained. But it does look like there might be some top secret info in that image.

Betreff: Inventor cannot constrain or dimension reference or fixed geometry

Sofia.Xanthopoulou — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 19:00:35 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

if you are still wondering why you cannot constrain those two sketched lines, please continue the conversation.

From what I can see:

I hope you do not try to constrain objects on different sketches.
Both sketches could be referenced (see the little pin in the browser), that means they do not accept further constrains
or check the sketch for this fixed constrain - this is the second part of the info message

According to the picture and the info message, I cannot see any misbehavior.

And please notice: This is not an error message - this is just an info, so we cannot talk about software faults.

If you disagree, please let me know. In this case it would be preferable to have the dataset.

Regards