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Constraints (by Weston)
Hello!

I recently discovered SolveSpace and am loving the program! I, however have not quite wrapped my head around constraints yet. I'm not sure how to describe my problem so if someone can take a look at my attached file below and point me in the right direction, that would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
Tue Apr 7 2020, 01:17:55, download attachment Constraints.slvs
(no subject) (by Andrew)
While you have dimensioned and constrained the drawing, but you have not positioned it on the drawing plane, or contsrined it in rotation.. Position can be set by constraining one of the drawings point to the center reference of the plane, or constraining two intersecting lines to include the cente point of the plane. Rotation can be constrained by using a vertical or horizontal constraint on one of the lines.
Tue Apr 7 2020, 06:51:58
(no subject) (by Weston)
That makes much more sense! One more thing I am seeing, and maybe this isn't an issue, but is there a way to contain the shape in order to prevent this from happening?
Tue Apr 7 2020, 09:22:35, download attachment Constraints.slvs
(no subject) (by Weston)
Constrain I mean
Tue Apr 7 2020, 12:29:11
(no subject) (by Andrew)
You always have to constrain to the drawing plane, and provide an orientation to anchor a drawing. However you can start a line on the center point of the plane, or put a center there. When drawing lines, if you align a them close to vertical or horizontal, that constraint will be applied automatically, and it will appear when the line is close to the orientation..
Tue Apr 7 2020, 13:03:21
(no subject) (by Weston)
Ok I think I got it. One more question I have is when I make a sketch in a new workplane, a lot of the view shifts to the opposite side of the new workplane I intended to start my sketch from. Is there anyway to flip this around or?
Tue Apr 7 2020, 16:38:59
(no subject) (by Andrew)
Assuming you are using just a point at the origin to create the workplane, select the point and the orientate so that the desired plane is facing you in approximately the right orientation, and then create the new workplane. For skewed workplane, you can sketch in 3d, and position points as distance from the x,y,z planes, (dotted outlines). When creating workplanes, the system aligns the view to the nearest ortho view. note also that you can orientate the drawing without changing the current selection.
Tue Apr 7 2020, 17:03:51
(no subject) (by Weston)
If anyone would be so kind, check my model and see if there is any way to prevent forcing NURBS to triangulate mesh or any other things I should have taken into account for my first model.

Thanks!
Wed Apr 8 2020, 22:03:23, download attachment Flyswatter.slvs
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