Can only change a dimension a little at a time

Can only change a dimension a little at a time

bentwookie
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Can only change a dimension a little at a time

bentwookie
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Hi everyone. I've got a sketch here where I'm trying to build a section to revolve. I built it at some random distance from the origin, and now I'd like to move the whole mess out to the radius I require. 

 

If I set a dimension from the origin to that bottom flange, it's fine. If I increase that dimension by a few millimeters, I can walk the whole collection up as far as I'd like. 

 

However, if I specify a larger jump, the constrains fail to solve and I'm told to remove that dimension. 

 

Can anyone spot the problem, or suggest a way I might build this where I don't run into this issue? I could walk it up, millimeter by millimeter, but you just know that will bite me later 🙂

 

Here's a link to the file. The sketch is HourRing:Sketch2.

http://a360.co/2pPkYa9

 

Thanks for your advice!

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bentwookie
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Heh. So I re-did this, but instead of setting the two right-most vertical lines equal to each other with constraints, I defined them via math. That worked. But having done that, the original collection started solving fine with no change. Non deterministic solver voodoo I guess?

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jeff_strater
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Thanks @bentwookie, that's definitely a bug.  Thanks for sharing the design.  Glad you were able to find a different way to do that, but we will look at the solver bug with that dimension.

 

Jeff

 


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bentwookie
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Glad to help. Do I need to do anything to preserve the version it was occurring in, or do you all have what you need?

 

 

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