Is there a way to force the direction of an angular dimension?
I have an angular dimension driven by an equation. As long as I change the value in a certain range, no problem, BUT, let's say the value is 20°, if I put the value 0 (to have a right angle) it's fine, until the moment I want to change the value back to 20°... This is the drama, instead of going counterclockwise, it goes clockwise, changing the portion of the arc drawn, so I find myself with an angle of 340° that goes all the way around instead of tracing the small portion of 20°... I tell him clearly 20° but SW still finds the stupid way to deduce that I meant 360°-20°... NO, I just want 20° !, seriously...
Why does the listing not retain the meaning established at its creation? How can this be remedied?
For my part, I have never found a method to avoid this SW behavior. I regularly have this problem when I do design studies with different configurations. SW loses the sense of the rating and I end up with design errors. Angle dimensioning is never simple. I complicate my life, by copying sketches and modeling the different configurations.
If anyone ever has a solution, I'm also a taker, but apart from an evolution of the software, I don't think there is a simple method to avoid this kind of mistake
With the fox we fox say otherwise we have to be cunning. Instead of putting 0 well you put 0.001 so it increments from this value. I often use this trick to get around the PB.
That said, it's a chronic problem for many SW functions (especially the so-called smart dimensions to delimit a stroke or an angle).
Yes that's what I did, I put a condition if =0° then =0.000000001° but it's not enough because it doesn't solve the problem of exceeding values. If the entity driven by the angular dimension crosses another line, this entity will be modified and the return to a lower value is impossible (because during the process it has reversed the direction). I would have to make a file of my sketch to make it clearer. And maybe a solution escaped me. A constraint to be added possibly. I had started testing by changing the side dimension, but I have to start part of the sketch again to test. Otherwise I will also test by creating the quotes in a clockwise direction from the start.
Hello @tous On my side, instead of making an angle from 0 to 120 for example, I shift the reference so that I have an angle from 90 to 210, with equations it's even better, a simple global variable allows to keep the design logic,
Like my colleagues, I cheat @FUZ3D summarize both techniques. Despite everything, it's true that this problem is particularly painful, and we regularly get trapped when we didn't anticipate the configuration at 0° at the beginning of the file construction and that we have to add it later (when everything is finished )
Rather later because I need to pull the sketch and equations out of the room, and it's going to be for the 2020.
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