Creating Quick Constraints

You can create geometrical constraints quickly.

Before you begin:
  • Make sure Show Constraints is active in the Tools toolbar.
  • For the purpose of this scenario, also make sure that Create Detected Constraints is active in the Tools toolbar: this option creates lasting constraints (if you do not activate this icon, the geometry is only temporarily constrained, which means that it can subsequently be moved without being constrained).
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Creating Constraints via SmartPick

  1. Select the geometrical elements to be constrained to each other.

  2. Click Geometrical Constraint in the Geometry Modification toolbar. Based on the elements you selected, the most logical constraint type is displayed.

  3. At this time, you can right-click the drawing, to display a contextual menu offering the other types of constraints available for the selected elements:


    • Parallelism

    • Perpendicularity

    • Coincidence

    Otherwise, you can click the drawing to accept the constraint offered. In the example, both lines are now constrained as parallel to each other.

  4. Modify the position of one of the lines, by moving one of its end points, for example.



As you can see, the lines are constrained so as to remain parallel to each other, whatever the new position and/or length you assign to one of them.