Unable to Edit SOME Dimensions in Sketch
please share the design and a video (or point out an example of a dimension you cannot edit).
Possible causes:
- you are editing one sketch, and the dimension is in another sketch
- the dimension is a driven dimension, which cannot be edited
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
not quite sure why you consider @g-andresen 's post "gaslighting". He is merely showing that he is unable to reproduce the problem. I, also, am unable to reproduce this problem. I am also on a Mac. If anyone is able to reproduce this reliably, it would certainly be a high priority bug.
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
I in no way intended to say that the problem does not exist. I am pretty sure that @g-andresen, also, did not intend to say that. Neither of us intended to imply (and did not say) that your workflow is wrong. Merely, that this problem is more complex than you might have realized. While I realize that the fact that neither of us are able to reproduce the problem is not helpful to you, that information is very helpful to the Fusion team, and therefore, IMO, is a valid response here.
I am not sure how to proceed. Hopefully it is obvious to you that the development team cannot fix a problem that they are unable to reproduce. So, the question for us is: what is different between your system or installation or preferences, or cache, etc and ours? There must be some difference. If we can determine that, we can fix this, either in your system or in Fusion itself. To the best of my knowledge, we have never seen this problem before. So, anything you can do to help us determine what that difference is would be helpful
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
I noticed something else interesting about the file you uploaded. dimensions that have any kind of formula in them should be preceded by an "fx:" indicating such to the user (to be clear, fusion adds the fx, not the user). for some reason fusion isn't doing this in your model-
@jeff_strater - since this is happening after being exported and opened on a machine that has everything else working, maybe the OP's model will be helpful to the developers after all?
for reference, when I put a formula in a new sketch/model on my machine, I get the fx prefix-
@laughingcreek thanks for the pointer. However, there is one subtlety here: Fusion distinguishes an "expression" from an "equation". An expression is just a math phrase that can be evaluated statically. An equation is a math phrase that includes a reference to another parameter. The "fx:" is only shown for equations.
expression:
equation:
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
Not obvious until someone tells you, make the browser smaller, or move the dimension out from under the invisible browser window.
You're not the first to get caught with this.
Might help...
Something that strikes me as odd is that the very fist sketch, which is also the very first feature in the timeline has purple geometry in it!
Purple sketch geometry is projected geometry, which is still linked to the original object (edge or other sketch geometry from another sketch) it was projected from.
However, it being the first feature in the timeline there is no 3D object or other sketch that it could have been projected from, so how did that get there?
That is before I have even edited the sketch to look at how it is constrained and dimensioned.
Edit: That same purple geometry is part of every sketch in the design, but apparently it can be deleted without causing a problem. Unfortunately we don't have "link inspector", or a tool that would allow us to see what the projection is linked to.
