Sketcher

This page deals with the options concerning:

Grid
Defines the grid options:

Display

Defines whether the grid is displayed.

By default, this option is selected.

Adaptive Grid

If selected, this option enables change of grid size as you zoom in or zoom out, in the sketch plane. The current grid size is displayed at the top of the work area.

By default, this option is cleared.

Snap to point

Defines whether annotations are snapped to the grid point.

By default, this option is selected.

Allow Distortions

Defines whether grid spacing and graduations are the same horizontally and vertically.

By default, this option is not selected.

H Primary spacing

Defines the grid horizontal spacing.

By default, the value is 100mm.

H Graduations

Defines the grid horizontal graduations.

By default, the number of graduation is 10.

V Primary spacing

Defines the grid vertical spacing, available only if Allow Distortions is selected.

By default, the value is 100mm.

V Graduations

Defines the grid vertical graduations, available only if Allow Distortions is selected.

By default, the number of graduation is 10.

Sketch Plane
 
Defines the sketch plane options:

Shade sketch plane

Defines whether a shaded plane is displayed in the Sketcher workbench representing the sketch plane.

By default, this option is not selected.

Position sketch plane parallel to screen

Defines if the sketch plane is positioned parallel to the screen when you enter in the Sketcher workbench, otherwise the default orientation is kept. Selecting this option enables Minimize viewpoint transformation check box.

By default, this option is selected.

Minimize viewpoint transformation

Defines whether to keep the orientation of the sketch axis as close as possible to original 3D position and orientation.

If you select this option when entering the Sketcher workbench, the sketch plane aligns itself in such a way that the 2D viewpoint in Sketcher becomes similar to that of the 3D viewpoint.

3D Viewpoint
 Minimize viewpoint transformation option not selected
 Minimize viewpoint transformation option selected

By default, this option is not selected.

Visualization of the cursor coordinates

Defines whether the cursor coordinates are displayed, near the cursor, within the geometry.

By default, this option is selected.

Add construction geometries for the newly created sketch 

Defines whether the construction elements created in a new sketch should be visible outside Sketcher or not.

By default, this check box is cleared.

 

Geometry

Defines the geometry options:

Create circle and ellipse centers

Defines when you create a circle or an ellipse whether its center is created.

By default, this option is selected.

Allow direct manipulation

Defines whether you are able to move geometry using the mouse according to the Solving Mode options.

By default, this option is selected.

Solving Mode...

Click this button to display the solving mode options.

Solving mode for moving elements

  • Standard mode: specifies that you can move as many elements as possible with respect of existing constraints.
  • Minimum move: specifies that you can move as few elements as possible with respect of existing constraints.
  • Relaxation: specifies that you can move elements by re-distributing them over the sketch, globally speaking. This method solves element moving by minimizing energy cost.

By default, the Minimum Move option is selected.

Drag elements end points included

Defines whether you move geometrical elements with their end points.

By default, this option is selected.

Constraint

Defines the constraint options:

Creates the geometrical constraints

Defines whether the geometrical constraints detected by the SmartPick tool are created. This option is also available in the Sketcher Tools toolbar through the Geometrical Constraints capability .

By default, this option is selected.

Creates the dimensional constraints

Defines whether the dimensional constraints detected by the SmartPick tool are created. For more information, see SmartPick. This option is also available in the Sketcher Tools toolbar thru the Dimensional Constraints capability .

By default, this option is selected.

Detects the geometrical constraints on background elements

Defines whether the geometrical constraints on background elements are detected by the Smartpick tool.

By default, this option is not selected.

Automatic Dimensional Constraints Creation

Creates detected internal dimensional constraints automatically as you create a sketch.

By default, this option is cleared.

SmartPick...

Click this button to display the SmartPick options. The SmartPick detects multiple directions and positions, and more and more relationships with existing elements. This may lead to confusion due to the rapid highlighting of several different detection possibilities as you point the cursor at different elements in rapid succession.
Detection

Support lines and circles

Defines whether the line and arc of circle support are detected.

Alignment

Defines whether alignment constraint is detected.

Parallelism

Defines whether parallelism constraint is detected.

Perpendicularity

Defines whether perpendicularity constraint is detected.

Tangency

Defines whether tangency constraint is detected.

Horizontal and vertical

Defines whether horizontal and vertical constraints are detected.

By default, all these options are selected.

Snapping

Snap mode

Defines whether the snapping is done on all the visible elements or only on the last flown over element. You can select one of the following options:

  • All visible elements
  • Last flown over element

 
  •  For internal geometries, if All visible elements is selected, then all the visible elements are considered for snapping.
  • For background elements, if All visible elements is selected, then only the last 5 flown over background elements are considered for snapping.
 

By default, All visible elements option is selected.

Background elements

Defines whether the snapping is possible on the background elements. For more information, see Sketcher User's Guide: Using Smartpick. 

By default, this check box is cleared. 

Colors
Defines the colors options:

Default color of the elements

Defines the color of the geometrical elements.

By default, the color is white. See the screen capture.

Visualization of diagnosis

Defines whether the diagnosis colors are applied. See Colors diagnoses.

By default, this option is selected.

Colors...

Click this button to display diagnosis colors options.

Over-constrained elements

Defines the color of over-constrained elements.

By default, the color is magenta. See the screen capture.

Inconsistent elements

Defines the color of inconsistent elements.

By default, the color is red. See the screen capture.

Not-changed elements

Defines the color of unchanged elements.

By default, the color is brown. See the screen capture.

Iso-constrained elements

Defines the color of iso-constrained elements.

By default, the color is green. See the screen capture.

Masks of these colors also appear on the sketch features in the tree to indicate the constraint diagnosis of the respective sketches.
These masks are not displayed for under-constrained sketches (including empty sketches) and Paste Special – Link as results.

Other color of the elements

Defines the color of the elements which are different of geometrical and diagnosis elements.  See Colors for other elements.

Colors...

Click this button to display colors for other elements options.

Protected elements

Defines the color of the protected elements.

By default, the color is yellow as shown by the screen capture.

Construction elements

Defines the color of construction elements.

By default, the color is grey as shown by the screen capture.

SmartPick

Defines the color of the SmartPick assistant elements and symbols.

By default, the color is blue as shown by the screen capture.

Update
Select this option to ensure that the Update Diagnosis dialog box appears to inform you that the sketch you have modified is under-constrained.

By default, this option is not selected.