centering 2 vertical lines on 1 horizontal line

[ktnalive]

Hi, I am new to Fusion, so I went to YouTube to find a video and in it, it told me how to center 2 vertical lines (3/4" apart) to a horizontal line. Yet since the video is a couple of years old it did not work as suggested by the video author. He said, "Draw a rectangle somewhere close to the middle vertical to the horizontal line at the top." So I did. Then he said, "Draw 2 horizontal construction lines." I did that too (please see the picture to better understand what is being said here.) Then he said to click on the first line then [shift] click on the second line, before clicking on the EQUAL constraint. Following his instructions to the "T" nothing worked. So I looked for other ways to center the 2 vertical lines on the horizontal line, yet found none, thus I ask for your help.

[laughingcreek]

there's no equal constraint shown in your pic, so I guess you didn't get it applied.  activate/click on the equal constraint (you'll know it's active because there will be a glyph that looks like an equal sign next to the cursor), then click on each of the construction lines.

[Drewpan]

Hi,

I would strongly recommend that you do the embedded tutorials in the Fusion Documentation and also some of the

Self-Paced Learning to help you to learn fusion faster and better. They can be found here:

It is also much easier for the forum to help you if you attach your file AND a screenshot of what you want to achieve

and what the problem is. You can create a file to export like this:

Time spent on the tutorials and self paced learning will not be wasted. Also check out the three RULES that are pinned to the forum for further guidance.

Cheers

Andrew

[TheCADWhisperer]

@ktnalive 

Can you File>Export your *.f3d file to your local drive and then Attach it here to a Reply?

[ktnalive]

Here is the *.f3d file. Forgive me; at first, I did not know I could save a file to share onto my computer; otherwise, this would have been done earlier.

[ktnalive]

No, I was not able to. I have attached here a f3d file for everyone to look at.

[yqliu · Accepted solution]

I think the problem is you accidently added a middle point constraint between the vertical line and the top horizontal line, and so you can not add equal constraint any more. Please delete the middle point constraint and see if it helps:

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@ktnalive wrote:

 He said, "Draw a rectangle somewhere close to the middle vertical to the horizontal line at the top." So I did. 

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@ktnalive 

Ha, he should have said be careful not to snap to the middle.  Close, but not on the midpoint.

Once you finish this - Attach the file and I will show you an even better way.

[g-andresen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Avoid overlapping lines.
I show some of these in the screencast.

When dimensioning, only one end point is ever picked, which leads to an undefined sketch and can subsequently cause problems.

günther

[ktnalive]

I implemented both suggestions by removing my vertical lines and subsequently redrawing them to ensure they were properly constrained.

Thanks to everyone who helped.

[ktnalive]

I apologize for not addressing your question earlier. However, I have followed your suggestion and successfully uploaded the file.