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.

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.

By default, this option is 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.