Sketch Geometry Status

Sketches include a status, and sketch entities within the sketch include a state. Sketch entity states are displayed in different colors to facilitate identification. Sketch states include the following:

Dangling

• Appears as brown in the graphics area under Relations in the Display/Delete Relation PropertyManager, and in the FeatureManager design tree.

• Indicates sketch geometry that cannot be resolved. For example, deleting an entity that was used to define another sketch entity.

Driven

• Appears as grey in the graphics area.

• Indicates a dimension that is redundant and cannot be modified.

When you add a redundant dimension, you can select Make this dimension driven and click OK in the dialog box. The dimension changes from red (over defined) to grey.

Over Defined

• Appears as yellow in the graphics area and under Relations in the Display/Delete Relation PropertyManager.

• Indicates a redundant dimension or an unnecessary relation.

Use SketchXpert to resolve over defined sketches.

Under Defined

• Appears as blue in the graphics area.

• Indicates a sketch entity which requires a dimension or relation to another sketch entity.

Generate a combination of dimensions and relations to fully define sketch an under defined sketch.

Fully Defined

• Appears as black in the graphics area and under Relations in the Display/Delete Relation PropertyManager.

• Indicates all required dimensions and relations to sketch entities are present, without redundant or unnecessary elements that cause the sketch to be over defined.

Invalid

• Appears as yellow in the graphics area.

• Indicates sketch entities that are invalid, creating a sketch without resolution in its current state.

• Requires deleting some relations or dimensions, or returning the sketch entity to its prior state.

Not Solved

• Appears in red in the graphics area.

• Indicates the geometry cannot determine the position of one or more sketch entities.

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