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If you highlight the yellow projection lines then right click, you can click an option that says "Delete constraints." This will convert the yellow projection lines to the standard purple build lines and can be altered as needed.
Thanks for that tip! I can make that work. The only thing is that I will have to readd contraints but at least it changes itself to editable standard geometry.
How else would you expect the constraints to work? The only thing defining the shape and size of projected objects are those projected constraints. If they are removed, that makes it unconstrained geometry by definition.
If would be the same for your proposed idea. When you converted from Projected to Standard geometry, you'd lose the projection constraints. And since those are the only constraints on the geometry to begin with, you'd end up with unconstrained geometry.
We are making the big switch from SolidWorks and I'm just wondering if I can do this in inventor without having to redraw lines and readd contraints. In SolidWorks this line is still constrained even though I trimmed it.
I may be doing something wrong and if you know a better way of doing this correctly in inventor let me know. I'm all ears since I'm so new to the Inventor way of designing.
No, your understanding doesn't seem that far off. I was trying to point out (maybe not all that clearly) that without significant changes to how Inventor handles projection in the first place, your idea would have the same limitation as the current solution of deleting the constraints. I don't think what you are requesting is bad, or useless, or anything like that. But without a revamp of the way projection works in Inventor, I'm also not sure it's possible.
Without the projection constraint, Inventor no longer knows that it ever was projected geometry.
With the projection constraint, it has to stay an exact copy that can't be modified.
Neither of those are the condition you need for your idea to work, but they are the only two conditions that currently exist in the program. There would have to be a fundamental reworking of how projected geometry works before Inventor would even have a way to store the information.
My typical solution in Inventor would be exactly what you say you're trying to avoid. Instead of trimming, I would draw new lines on top of (and constrained to) the projections.
