90° arc becomes 270° when changing dimensions

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JiPe38
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90° arc becomes 270° when changing dimensions

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Hi everybody

I have a design (more or less complicated) in which there is a nylon belt. I use a spreadsheet. To show the interior of the design, I use an "exploding_distance" parameter. When set to 0mm, the assembly of multiple bodies is shown in it's normal configuration. When set to any positive value, it shows the parts exploded.

The attached file, simplified to contain only the belt, contains the value "35 mm" for this explosion parameter. The belt is shown at a position, like extended. No problem. When I set to "0 mm", it can't compute and show the belt in the normal position.

What happens is that, in the sketch, one or two of the arcs, normally 90° angle to joint two lines become 270° angle arcs, which confuses all the sketch and makes it impossible to extrude.

Does this problem come from the way I sketched this belt, or is it a bug ? A strategy to avoid that ?

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OS: Windows 10 (10.0)
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Python version: 3.7.3
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Vincent B
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Re: 90° arc becomes 270° when changing dimensions

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maybe like this.
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JiPe38
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Re: 90° arc becomes 270° when changing dimensions

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Yes it works. Another way of doing this belt. Thanks.
Is this a known issue ?
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Re: 90° arc becomes 270° when changing dimensions

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JiPe38 wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2020 8:36 pm Is this a known issue ?
Yes. It occurs, because "fully constraint" does not mean "unique". It means only, that there is no smooth (=continuous) transition from one solution to another.
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