Sketch editing enhancement

[Anonymous]

When going into Edit Sketch mode, these enhancements would be useful:

• Display absolute dimensions and relative dimensions of displacement (vertices, edges or whole object) as the displacement occurs.

• Allow users to define the displacement modification by typing the values, in either absolute or relative units.

• Make use of the Shift and Alt/Option keys to force orthogonal movements with some degree of flexibiity.

• When moving a vertex, display the cartesian (vertical and horizontal) offset from its near neighbours (on the same object) by showing construction lines with relative values.

• Let the user be able to change an edge into an arc and an arc into an edge.

• Let users modify already drawn arcs by typing the radius and cartesian (vertical and horizontal) offsets.

• Display geometric reference information when moving edges and vertices: The relationship of the moved item to nearby vretices and edges — midpoints, alignment, etc.

[Helmi74]

Generally displacement is a topic that we already had in several discussions during the last year or so. This is not only true for sketches but also for positioning of objects in the 3d space. So far not so much happened on this topic. It would be great if ideas like this get more votes.

Good and important points.

[zandernosler]

+1 on the original post, and i'd like to also see

• better tools for creating symmetry in sketches. (centerline dims)
• dim from edge or vertex to tangent
• some kind of rework of the constraints interface. it's really hard to see what constraints relate to what geometry. There are other cad packages that have this nailed...
• dim to entites not in the sketch - specifically the origin
• option to turn on dimension labels so they are visible even when the dimension isn't highlighted.

[promm]

Thank you for idea - this is getting archived due to lack of votes and multiple ideas in one.