I have a part (Leg_Base_Right) that I have built with the Part Design WB and I need to place a pocket on a face. Because of the Topo Naming problem, I have learned to stick with using datum planes vice using faces for sketch supports. The problem in this case is that I cannot seem to get the datum plane to line up with the face. Here is an image of the misalignment and a close up:
- Mis-Alignment.png (51.34 KiB) Viewed 978 times
- Mis-Alignment Closeup.png (43.56 KiB) Viewed 978 times
The angle seems to be off by 1.4 degrees (based on when I just adjust the angle by hand) which does not seem to correlate to anything. The angle is an expression pulling the angle from Sketch016 where I have the offset angle being calculated by the solver and stored as a reference constraint. Because of that, I assumed that the angle of the datum plane would always line up without failure. Here is an image of Sketch016.
- Supporting Sketch.png (182.95 KiB) Viewed 978 times
The 23.2 degree angle in red in the sketch is the "offset_angle" and then the 0.328 is the "center_support_offset_x" and the -2.4206 is the "center_support_offset_y". All of the properties for the datum plane are:
- Datum Plane Properties.png (131.53 KiB) Viewed 978 times
I have been messing with this all night and cannot figure out why the plane does not line up with the part face.
I have also attached the FCStd file here.
@chrisb: I had posted a different question about the cyclic dep issue in the expression engine. To try to systematically remove that I took out the intermediate storage and calculation of things in the spreadsheet so there should be no more cyclic issues.
Thanks for any help on this. This is driving me crazy.
File originally started in the 0.20 weekly's but has been most recently saved in the current stable 0.19.1 for MacOS and I am using MacOS 11.2.3
