How to move a single point in Sketch without moving the entire sketch??

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to edit my sketch by moving individual point because I want either a line shorter in one direction or I want one line to have a slant. In the images below I grab the blue point and drag down and it creates the mess in the other image. How do I move points so that both points adjacent to it are locked in position?

[jeff_strater]

It's all in the constraints.  It looks like you need a perpendicular constraint between these two lines:

Then, I think, you will find that your sketch behaves much more as you want it to.

Jeff Strater (Fusion development)

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry but I have no idea how that would solve my problem. The line that is being pointed at by your longer red arrow I am trying to make slanted, at about a 50 degree angle. Making them perpendicular would just prevent them from moving right? I want to simply drag down the blue point so instead of it being perpendicular it is slanted and the first line (short red arrow) becomes a shorter line. Instead the entire sketch goes nuts on me.

[TrippyLighting]

You cannot move that point because you have constrained it with dimensions, so either etit or delete the  the dimensions in question.

You need to delete the 90 deg constrait to the right of that point if you want the line to be angled.

The sketch does not go nuts on you, BTW. It just moves in those directions that are not yet fully constrained.

[zdsKDT7P]

Is there a way to prevent those constraints to be created in the first place? After all, I wanted fully adjustable splines and lines, not interdependent mess. Ie. I would like every point behave in isolation from others by default.

[TrippyLighting]

Yes, snapping got geometry that is not in the current sketch can be prevented by holding down the CTRL or CMD button while sketching.

[Anonymous]

Constraints! Eureka! Delete them all! lol And now it all works!  Now to learn to use em right.  Thanks a million.