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Project the axis by clicking on the triade

Project the axis by clicking on the triade

In a sketch, it would be great to project the axis by clicking on the triade.

 

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joeTNW8R
Contributor

Great idea!

A challenge with inventor sketches is to determine which direction is "Horizontal" or "Vertical" when placing constraints. Showing axis at origin would help.

@joeTNW8R this is not a challenge 🙂

The horizontal axis is thicker - this is clearly visible on the screen.

joeTNW8R
Contributor

So it is, this is quite helpful.

I have been doing this wrong for years. Wonder if this could be made more obvious for the next generation of new users?

Thanks kacper.suchomski !

 
 

Just education. Don't stop learning and asking about new things @joeTNW8R.

RajSchmidt
Advisor

I agree with @joeTNW8R , that would be very helpful.

Thanks, @kacper.suchomski, I never noticed that since I never show the axes. They hide lines originating from point zero.

@giancarlo_rinero, why do you need that? I learned to never project axes or planes. The origin point should do in most cases.

giancarlo_rinero
Participant
@RajSchmidt We need that to avoid strange movements of the things during the modifications. I need very often to refer the sketches to base axis. This feature costs nothing to the developers and helps us to avoid scrolling the (long) menu on the left.
RajSchmidt
Advisor

Hi @giancarlo_rinero ! In the past there have been endless problems with projected axes. Axes are, by definition, endless. The projected line is not, but its length is undefined which might pose problems when changing model geometry later on. What also happened occasionally was that the projected lines grew over time since Inventor tried to make them always a bit longer than the model geometry. I have heard of cases where such a line grew to several thousand kilometres!

As I said before, I usually get along with only the projected centre point. (Which I always project automatically, see Application Options.) In rare cases where I need a line, I draw it deliberately and use constraints and dimensions to make it fix.

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