Stuck on Modeling and Prototyping Course 2nd design

[Anonymous]

 On the Modeling and Prototyping course, the second design it has you follow along in sketching is giving me a problem, and I'm looking for a live chat teamview help if I can find it.

 It's telling me to create a rectangle and constrain it's top horizontal center to the center point of a circle. However, it absolutely will not let me click a center point on the horizontal line of the rectangle.

 I've added dimensions to it

 I've drawn it as four lines

 I've drawn it as a rectangle (2 point, 3 point and center point)

 I've tried clicking the rectangle first, then the center point of circle and vice versa

 It simply will not allow me to find a center point on this horizontal line. I am completely stuck and can't center this rectangle unless I draw half of it and have two rectangles. What in the f#$* am I doing wrong? Why won't it let me add a center point constraint or anything to this rectangle??

[TheCADWhisperer]

What happens if you click the Midpoint constraint.

then click the line,

then click the center of the circle?

[Anonymous]

Tried that as well. In fact, I tried just about every combination of order I can click selections to constrain. The only way I was able to get it to let me click the center point of the line after creating the rectangle was to immediately click the center point on it right after creating it, and then giving it a center line from top to bottom. Only then will it let me constrain it to a point I select elsewhere. 

 That is now how the lesson explains to do it. It never says to add a center line to the rectangle. I'm wondering if this may be a bug or there is something I'm just doing completely incorrect. I doubt I'm doing it incorrect, though.

[Anonymous]

It gives me an error when I try to click on the top horizontal line of the rectangle.

 "Failed to solve. Please try revising dimensions or constraints." 

 The rectangle is fully defined. No clue why it's doing this.

[TheCADWhisperer]

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

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@Anonymous wrote:
..... The only way I was able to get it to let me click the center point of the line

Where did I write to "click the center point of the line"?

Is my Pick #2 on the center point of the line?

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

Can you drag the center point of you circle around, that is, can it move?

Are the rectangle and the circle in the same (active) sketch?

[Anonymous]

File attached.

 Basically the problem is this; This course is asking me to use the Horizontal/Vertical constraint to align parts in the sketch. Where I have it saved at, it's asking me to use the constraint on the small rectangles inside the large area, to get them aligned horizontally/vertically with the outer boundary. It says to click the center point on the line, but no center point icon ever appears on any line after the rectangle is drawn out and defined with dimensions. Yet the error tells me to revise dimensions or constraints.

 Am I just not selecting the right portions of the lines? In my experience, the indicator that I'm at the center point of a line is usually around the center point of the line. Not the case here.

[Anonymous]

I'm following along with the .pdf but the video shows the exact same thing

youtu.be/lO_3RTl4Ido skip to 2:20, and you'll see the person click the center of the large circle, then click on the top horizontal line of the rectangle, and the midpoint icon will appear on the line. On my screen, that icon is not appearing. It keeps giving me the same two errors:

 Failed to solve, revise

 or

 Over constrained

[TheCADWhisperer]

I haven't gone through the tutorial, but simply using logic - Edit Sketch1 in Component F and add an Equal constraint between these two horizontal lines.

[JamieGilchrist · Accepted solution]

hi willhcarlson,

nope, you're not crazy.  there's a hidden modifier key that the narrator didn't mention.  So go through the steps he outlines using the horizontal/vertical constraint on the center point of the circle then hover near the midpoint of the top line of the rectangle and hold your shift key.  This will allow you to then pick the midpoint and create the constraint.

[Anonymous]

Wow. Amazing. You'd think they would definitely mention something like that. Thank you.