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    Default Centering or placing a sketch feature equidistant from reference.

    guys, is there a an easier to way to place and element equidistant from a set of reference lines or projected geometry?
    I was in a bit of a crunch so I resorted to some creative thinking with formulas but I have the feeling that there is an easier way.
    Below, I needed to have the circle in the center of the projected rectangle.



    I appreciate any insight.
    Thanks

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    Default Re: Centering or placing a sketch feature equidistant from reference.

    Could you draw a construction line from corner to corner to host your circle?
    Could you use a point at centre of face to find your centre?
    Could you use the mirror sketch constraint to centre a geometry between two fixed lines?

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    Default Re: Centering or placing a sketch feature equidistant from reference.

    Quote Originally Posted by Paul Munford View Post
    Could you draw a construction line from corner to corner to host your circle?
    Could you use a point at centre of face to find your centre?
    Could you use the mirror sketch constraint to centre a geometry between two fixed lines?
    Thank you. I googled the last method and came to this:

    http://blogs.rand.com/manufacturing/...on-a-face.html
    Last edited by crullier; 2014-10-09 at 12:45 AM.

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    Default Re: Centering or placing a sketch feature equidistant from reference.

    im looking for a way to do something similar in a sketch. Is the way I am doing it (formula) the only way to accomplish it?

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    Default Re: Centering or placing a sketch feature equidistant from reference.

    Why would you need a formula?
    I see several solutions posted above.

    Diagonal construction line.
    Construction line from midpoint to midpoint.
    Not construction lines, but horizontal and vertical constraints to midpoints.

    And probably the best technique
    model with obvious symmetry about the origin.

    Can you attach our *.ipt file here?

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    Default Re: Centering or placing a sketch feature equidistant from reference.

    Hi JD,

    The construction line and mid point constraints work if I want the circle in the center (X,Y) of a square like in the screenshot above. But what if I wanted the circle at 25% from the top ?
    not only that, the circle is added after the boundary sketch, so I don't see how the symmetry would help. There is a big difference between saying "put the circle between these two lines" and put the lines (symmetrically) along the circle isnt it?

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    Default Re: Centering or placing a sketch feature equidistant from reference.

    Just to add my 2 cents. Remember points can be vertically or horizontally constrained to another line or point/midpoint/endpoint. Vertical and Horizontal constraints don't just apply to lines.

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    Default Re: Centering or placing a sketch feature equidistant from reference.

    Quote Originally Posted by rmckenna683395 View Post
    Just to add my 2 cents. Remember points can be vertically or horizontally constrained to another line or point/midpoint/endpoint. Vertical and Horizontal constraints don't just apply to lines.
    ah, thank you. Very useful insight. did not know that.

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