Keeping constraints on elliptical curves?
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So I have three points on a sketch which are the results of parameters (they actually set lines in another sketch and I use intersects on this one, but I think that's probably not important with regards to my issue).
I use them to draw an ellipse, but because I only want to use half of that ellipse in my extrusion I then do a split of the ellipse and set some of the resulting elliptical curves to construction lines... and this point I get a warning that constraints have been removed, and the lines go from black to blue).
The attached image illustrates the situation. The dimensions shown are all directly or indirectly resulting from parameter valued.
Now, if I change the parameters, at first glance it looked like everything changes accordingly, but if I look more closely I see that this isn't the case.
Now this makes sense to me, constraints have been removed, but I also don't see any way of setting constraints on an elliptical curve, and creating the same curve with other tools is not obvious to me. Is there a way to achieve what I am trying to do?