Pretend parametrics

Don't know which release this was initiated in - I jumped from R14 to 2004,
but in the latter you can take a linear dimension* between two entities, then
move one of them and the dimension updates! Cool, but just one tiny step away
from being useful!! If only you could change the dimension to modify the
geometry - Soooo close, yet so far.

G Faris




(* - Might work with other dimension types as well. I haven't tried)

 

The STRETCH command has worked this way with Associative Dimensions ever
since Associative Dims came into existence. I haven't used 2004 . . .
are you saying this works with MOVE now or only with STRETCH? Or are
you saying you can detach a DEFPOINT and move it somewhere else besides
where it was originally attached using some command other than STRETCH?
Or what?

Mark 'Sporky' Stapleton
Watermark Design, LLC
www.h2omarkdesign.com

 

To do this you need a program with parametric dimensions, like Mechanical
Desktop or Inventor or ...

Juergen

 

Try Inventor. It will do that.

 

I know, I know - This is one of a thousand reasons why I currently DO use
Inventor and Mechanical Desktop. It's just that now, when I do use AutoCad,
and I see this new "feature" it makes me sigh, because it seems very close to
something that would make the program much more powerful.

G Faris