A question about Project/Intersect for a sketch
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I've created the main body of a rocket. The overall height of the rocket is specified by a User Parameter. That lets my change its height very easily.
I then create a sketch that I'm going to use to add some details to the rocket. One of the first things I do in the sketch is use the Project/Intersect feature to transfer the outline of the rocket in to my sketch. It does that just fine. And then I add some more lines and things for the additional items I want to add. In particular here I'm adding a cockpit to the upper left-hand side of the rocket. All well and good. The sketch looks fine, shown here with the main body of the rocket hidden., but its outline in green.
But then I decide that I want the rocket to actually be shorter, not so tall. In fact for this example I want it to be half its original height, and I make that change to the RocketOverallHeight user parameter. It does a fine job of rebuilding the rocket Body. BUT the recent sketch I had created isn't updated to that new height. In fact, it's unchanged. The outline of the rocket, which was created using the Project/Intersect operation when I was originally making the sketch, is the same outline as when I created it. I EXPECT that the Sketch should reference the NEWLY sized body of the rocket and generate the sketch accordingly. But it doesn't. It's as if what it saved was just the lines of the outline of the rocket and FORGOT that it acquired it from the specified Body.
And really, really ODD, it seems to sometime work and sometimes not.
Is there a way to FORCE the sketch to update, to again reference the rocket Body in the SIZE that it now exists, so that it gets the new outline of the rocket Body?
Or does the Sketch just not hold on to that information?
You can also see that a whole lot of the dimensions are now shown in red. I have no clue what it's indicating by that.