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Add CTRL behavior to Horizontal and Vertical sketch constraint.
If you choose a horizontal constraint and you realize that you need a vertical constraint, then you need to select the vertical constraint. Despite the fact that we are now in 2015 get a preview to see what is horizontal or vertical. Add a CTRL action, so that horizontal changes to vertical as soon as you press the CTRL. Ditto for vertical to horizontal constraint.
... But wouldn't it be better if your Sketch coordinate system was simply defined in such a way that "horizontal" and "vertical" made intuitive sense with the rest of the model?
Why should I turn my virtual head (i.e. camera) 90 degrees just so "fake horizontal" looks horizontal, and "fake vertical" looks vertical? I'd rather just define horizontal and vertical rationally...
@DRoam, @tmueller6RR3D after submitting my post and doing more research, I had come to the same conclusions as you have. Enabling the sketch LCS triad and enabling "align with local coordinate system" helps make sense of what's going on.
@Anonymous, great, glad you've been able to gain some understanding. If you would consider voting here to get Inventor working more properly in the first place, that would be very appreciated
@asiu, agreed! And we're not the only ones that think that. Please vote for this idea in the Community Ideas forum for that ability: Kudos for IdeaStation comments. It's been around for a while but it really needs more votes to get put on Autodesk's priority list.
Thanks for your feedback, please refer to below ideas, it's a similar idea on solving the confusion of Horizontal/Vertical constraints, the idea have been accepted.
Fusion only has one Vertical/Horizontal constraint command. It picks whichever axis your line is closest too (I have no idea what happens if your line is at 45 degrees!).
This code switch between constraint horizontal to vertical (and vis versa) when execute.
Public Sub SwitchConstraintVAndH()
Dim com As CommandCategory
Dim bDefO As ButtonDefinitionObject
Dim bDefH As ButtonDefinitionObject
Dim bDefV As ButtonDefinitionObject
Dim i As Integer
i = 1
Dim j As Integer
j = 1
For i = 1 To ThisApplication.CommandManager.CommandCategories.Count
If Not bDefV Is Nothing And Not bDefH Is Nothing Then Exit For
Set com = ThisApplication.CommandManager.CommandCategories.Item(i)
For j = 1 To com.Count
If TypeOf com.Item(j) Is ButtonDefinitionObject Then
Set bDefO = com.Item(j)
If bDefO.InternalName = "SketchHorizontalConstraintCmd" Then
Set bDefH = bDefO
' Debug.Print bDefO.DisplayName
' Debug.Print "i = "; i; " j = "; j
If Not bDefV Is Nothing Then
Exit For
End If
End If
If bDefO.InternalName = "SketchVerticalConstraintCmd" Then
Set bDefV = bDefO
' Debug.Print bDefO.DisplayName
' Debug.Print "i = "; i; " j = "; j
If Not bDefH Is Nothing Then
Exit For
End If
End If
End If
Next
Next
If bDefV.Pressed Then
Call bDefH.Execute
ElseIf bDefH.Pressed Then
Call bDefV.Execute
End If
End
End Sub
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