Sketcher bug, says is fully constrained when it is not

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Re: Sketcher bug, says is fully constrained when it is not

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freecc wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2019 4:52 pm move the vertical lines back and forth a little bit as you wish, then apply a 8mm horizontal constraint to the horizontal line. Now drag the horizontal line up and down with one of the vertical lines. The horizontal constraint disappears.
Thanks - I can reproduce this too (only occasionally) and for me the 8 mm Horizontal Distance Constraint doesn't only disappear - it gets deleted.

After dragging the vertical line segments and then applying the 8 mm Horizontal Distance Constraint the Solver correctly reports that I have 1 DOF remaining. If drag one of the vertical line segments (I used the right one), the Solver incorrectly Fully Constrains the Sketch. Now, while sometimes after dragging a bit more, the Solver correctly reverted to Under-constrained with 1 DOF.

It sure is a weird bug...
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Re: Sketcher bug, says is fully constrained when it is not

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bejant wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2019 9:44 pm
freecc wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2019 4:52 pm move the vertical lines back and forth a little bit as you wish, then apply a 8mm horizontal constraint to the horizontal line. Now drag the horizontal line up and down with one of the vertical lines. The horizontal constraint disappears.
Thanks - I can reproduce this too (only occasionally) and for me the 8 mm Horizontal Distance Constraint doesn't only disappear - it gets deleted.

After dragging the vertical line segments and then applying the 8 mm Horizontal Distance Constraint the Solver correctly reports that I have 1 DOF remaining. If drag one of the vertical line segments (I used the right one), the Solver incorrectly Fully Constrains the Sketch. Now, while sometimes after dragging a bit more, the Solver correctly reverted to Under-constrained with 1 DOF.

It sure is a weird bug...
another scenario that I get when moving the vertical lines is that the horizontal constraint gets deleted but the DOF remains at 1 when it should be 2. After some more moving up and down with the vertical lines it becomes 2 DOF which is correct.
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Re: Sketcher bug, says is fully constrained when it is not

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Notes added to existing tickets:
issue #3791 and issue #4032
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Re: Sketcher bug, says is fully constrained when it is not

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bejant wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2019 3:02 pm Notes added to existing tickets:
issue #3791 and issue #4032
As said, I think that issue #4032 has the same root cause as issue #3976, i.e. edges that are tangent by design and not by constraint. ;)
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Re: Sketcher bug, says is fully constrained when it is not

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openBrain wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2019 4:05 pm i.e. edges that are tangent by design and not by constraint.
I was thinking here there initially is no tangency. The vertical edges aren't tangent to the arc until Tangency Constraints are applied or until the 8 mm Horizontal Distance Constraint is added to the horizontal line segment. Am I missing something?
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Re: Sketcher bug, says is fully constrained when it is not

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bejant wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2019 9:57 pm I was thinking here there initially is no tangency. The vertical edges aren't tangent to the arc until Tangency Constraints are applied or until the 8 mm Horizontal Distance Constraint is added to the horizontal line segment. Am I missing something?
No that's it. 8mm is a special value that makes arc and lines tangent indirectly without having tangent constraints applied. This case seems to be wrongly handled by the solver. ;)
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