Objects in sketch not centered to each other

[LarsRey]

I have a problem that I don't know why I should have to solve.

I have an object with a plate. When the plate was first created I used the center rectangle to make a rectangle and then extruded it 5 mm. Then I created a new sketch and made a new center rectangle and clicked in the center where the triangle is on the first extruded rectangle and wrote in the dimensions. The length of the new rectangle is the same but the width is wider.

When I finish the sketch the second rectangle is not centered with the first rectangle. It's displaced on the short side with 1-2 mm. How do I center the two rectangles when they both have the same length? I tried to align, tried to measure to origin, remove constraints, add constraints and the rectangles still won't move or line up.

This is basal and I don't grip it as I find Fusion 360 to be abstract and unnecessary circumlocutory. I'm a beginner when it comes to Fusion 360 but for someone that been working daily with different kind of intuitive graphics programs for the last 35 years this is very frustrating and Fusion 360 is certainly not my friend.

Attached is a snapshot of the "project".

[seth.madore]

Hard telling not knowing. Can you share your file here?
File > Export > Save to local folder. Return to thread and attach the .f3d file in your reply

[LarsRey]

I found out that I had to make a vertical center construction line on the first sketch rectangle. After that the second sketch rectangle lined up. Many things to think about to put two objects over each other in symmetry.

[jeff_strater]

please share your design.  Can't do much with just an image.

The robust way to make sure that one sketch is correctly aligned with elements in another sketch is to use the Project command to project, for example, the center point from the earlier sketch into the later sketch.