Finding broken sketch constraints

Finding broken sketch constraints

cedric.eveleigh
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Finding broken sketch constraints

cedric.eveleigh
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Coming from Onshape, where it's easy to find and fix broken sketch constraints, I find this to be very difficult in Fusion 360. Is there a trick to finding broken sketch constraints in Fusion 360? Or an obscure preferences setting that needs to be changed to make broken sketch constraints more visible?

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HughesTooling
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Can you give an example? Only time I seen anything you might call a broken constraint is after modifying a sketch where you end up with a conflict and some constraints turn red.

 

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cedric.eveleigh
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I think the underlying issue is that when "show constraints" is checked while editing a sketch, the sketch constraints aren't all visible and one has to hover over sketch features to make some of them show. It would be great if all sketch constraints were continuously visible when "show constraints" is checked while editing a sketch.

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HughesTooling
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Fusion used to show all constraints but the display got a bit busy at times! Think Fusion only tends to hide coincident constraints though or are there others?

 

Here for example the only hidden constraints are at corners\intersections.

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cedric.eveleigh
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Here's an example of struggling to fix a broken sketch constraint. The project is lost in this sketch and the broken project constraint isn't visible even though "show constraints" is checked:

cedriceveleigh_1-1667675823885.png

 

In Onshape, sketches can be constrained to bodies so much more easily, and if a sketch constraint fails when referring to a body (for example, because the body was changed), the broken constraint is visible.