2005, sp0, handy spline workaround

I have been having problems adjusting spline points and tangency
magnitudes - intermittiently, simply selecting the point or tangency
handles causes them to 'jump' dramatically which is a real pain when I just
wanted to adjust them a little.

What has worked for me:
If a spline point has decided to be a mexican jumping bean, I undo, then
highlight the SPLINE CONTOUR and go to the PropertyManager. There, I can
use the spin box to move from one spline control point to another. When I
reach the correct point, I can change the X, Y (and on 3-D splines, Z) of
the point for my fine tweaking.
The same works for the magnitude of the tangecy handles- just use the spin
box in the PM to get to the end of the spline and adjust the magnitude
vector numerically. This saved my ass over the weekend, so I though I would
share.

BTW- I've started to report this to SWx, but I need to get a consistent
sample of it to them. Anyone else run into this? and have something they
can report/have reported?

 

I have experienced trouble with splines as you describe but I am not using
2005 for anything yet so I haven't even bothered trying to battle with
it...just another one of those infuriating release bugs that makes it
largely useless for my needs I am afraid

 

Yeo! It's a pita.
Last week I submitted a Rx which shows a spline with slowness and
erratic behavior.
It seems splines (2d and 3d) with constraints or other construction
lines attached are having problems now??

It shows up often since I've been using 2005 so I would think (hope?),
yours, mine and others have been reported and it will be fixed soon!?
I've reported a few other spline problems with 2005 so, again, I hope
splines will be addressed aggressively?!?

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Are you guys seeing the problem where, when CTRL+selecting a spline and
another sketch entity to add a relation to them, SUPRISE! a copy of the two
contours is being made to the right on the screen (and you can't make the
relation between the original selected contorus - the realtion actually gets
applied to the offset copy)?
Anybody reported it yet? I mentioned it to a SWX guy yesterday and he was
not aware if it already being addressed, and frankly I can't take the time
until after SWX World to get a nice repeatable sample -especially with SP1
looming (why take the time if its already fixed?).

 

Hmm,.. so, because you have ctrl active it somehow copies (not
intentionally, ie, dragging) a set of curves (somewhere off to the side,
or offset) and applies the constraint to the that copied set?

Trying... nah, unless I intentionally drag/copy the set and apply the
constraint, yes it does that.
Or, reading more into this but, I do a entity offset of the two selected
entities (spline and line) and I apply a tangent constraint to the
original, it reflects the tangent constraint, as it should, to the
entity offset.

Otherwise, I don't understand the problem and/or haven't seen that one
yet?
(could be a mouse glitch??)

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not exactly that, but I found that spline points that had coincident
relation form to other sketch entities as I sketched actually didn't....it
was quite puzzling to me that I got various features failing after changing
dimensions later...when I went back to the sketch everything looked
ok...relation flags showing everywhere....until I zoomed in to see no
coincident relationship existed and gaps had opened up....was it ever
actually there or did it vanish after...who knows....sorta sounds related to
your experience.
neil