Locking down a drawing to the origin

Locking down a drawing to the origin

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Locking down a drawing to the origin

Anonymous
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I've been working on a project for a while and yesterday with some help was able to complete my drawing. The issue is, once I figured it out, it was not attached to the origin. I used the move command to move it to the origin but I cannot get any of my line to turn from blue to black.

 

Watching videos, I draw lines from one point to the origin and put some random numbers in. I'm not quite sure I understand the purpose of those numbers especially since I tried it and had so many lock downs but my lines were still blue. 

 

Could someone tell me how to fix my attached drawing properly to the origin? It is not a perfect squares. 

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JDMather
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Do not use Move. 

Add a coincident constraint.


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mavigogun
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Select Coincident from the Constraint Pallet > left click and hold on the Origin > select Sketch Line > left click and hold on the Origin > select O.    The line will turn White, showing it is party Constrained.    Quick, dirty, and easy, you could Window Select all the elements and Fix to Constrain them in place in one swoop; if there is no need to relocate the elements, this is an acceptable way of preserving those elements while relieving Fusion of the burden of recalculating them.

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TrippyLighting
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You sketch is mostly unconstrained and not dimensioned meaning it is very easy to break.

The screencast shows how it can be fully constrained.

 

 


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Anonymous
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Hey TrippyLighting, Once I get down to 2:25 it doesn't work. Well, it works but it changes all my dimensions following that. It's changes that half of the drawing from 10" to 9.893, the bottom rocker and side border are no longer 1.5" and the spaces are not longer 0.125". I tried manipulating it but it goes back and off set the 2 points near the origin. 

 

I tried instead of pulling the point away from the origin like you showed in the screencast, I tried taking it past the origin but that didn't work either

 

Is there another way to fix it or to manipulate it?

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Anonymous
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GM, I tried the constraint but that didn't work. It move part of the drawing. I re drew it to the origin and tried locking it in but it did not turn black. I don't understand what i'm doing wrong. So close but soo far away.

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TrippyLighting
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If you keep attaching the same file without showing any progress then we won't go anywhere.

You can also easily create a screencast just as I did to show where you're having the problem.


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Anonymous
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I was able to take a screencast of what I did but Autodesk is so **** complicated when it should be so simple. I cannot add it and when I copy the URL, it tells me it's not a screencast URL. It say screencast URL, copy! It shouldn't be that complex, it's a video. Too many stages to complete one transaction