Solidworks what is under defined

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Creating Vertical Dimensions. Locking Dimensions. Angular Dimensions. JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. Search Filter is a tool that will allow you to search through your whole feature tree by name; it is located at the top of your Feature Tree. Note that it did not flag the already under-defined sketches. The Fully Define Sketch tool requires some input, and with that input it will dimension how you want it to.

Dimensions: You can edit how it will dimension Centerline, Baseline, or Ordinate and from where and where the tool will drag out those dimensions. After hitting the Calculate button and liking what you see, click OK. If the dimensions are not where you want them to be, you can move them to their desired locations after clicking OK. Please note that sometimes under-defined sketches can be okay. Please login to comment. The store will not work correctly in the case when cookies are disabled.

Posted in: Mechanical Design. By Neil Lantto. Making sketches fully defined is good practice, it makes changes more predictable. SolidWorks has an option to always use fully defined sketches. Once you decide on an idea you may want to go back and define those sketches… but how do you find them?

Well you could open up all sketches in turn, or check the sketch name for a - symbol: this means the sketch is under-defined.