
You don't get injured when the car crashes, but cars get crashed a lot because the drivers can't see over the air-bags. It's like having air-bags that are always deployed. As you delete them I'll add more dimensions to clutter the sketch." "Hi, it looks like you are creating a sketch - mind if I just dimension that for you? Not what you want? Just find all the constraints I Easter egged all over the place and delete them. It also interferes in that I may assume I have the sketch correctly constrained, but it really isn't, because Intent Manager has interceded and hidden the defect.Īnyone remember Microsoft Clippy? Intent Manager is PTC's version. She trains end-users with all skill levels on Creo Parametric and CATIA. Most of the time it's because of auto-constraint side-effects, assuming things are equal or collinear, rather than a dimension, so it's a tiny mark amongst many other. If every time when you edit and regenerate a dimension in a sketch the image is. You can set auto dimensioning rules from the following: Inferred Constraints and Dimensions. This command uses auto dimensioning rules to fully constrain the active sketch, including positioning dimensions to the parent Datum CSYS.

When a sketch doesn't fail and I know that it should, my attention is split between determining the dimensions and constraints that are still required and trying to figure out where Sketcher added dimensions and constraints to zero out the degrees of freedom. Use the Continuous Auto Dimensioning command to automatically dimension sketch curves after each operation. It should be easy enough to match the weak dimension color to the background, rendering them invisible.īy-the-by, I despise the auto weak-dimension/constraint system.

I thought the better method was the way PTC set it up - make the weak dimensions almost the same color as the background so they were not noticeable.
