Virtual Sharps
I have several sheet metal parts that need to be dimensioned to their "virtual sharp", that is the point of intersection beyond the bend. In Solidworks, this is easily cone, but I have not found a way in Bricscad, except to manually draw the intersection, dimension to that and adjust the dimension scale. Any iseads?
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BricsCAD does not (yet) have this as far as I know, so you may want to file a support request to add this feature.
You could try aligned dimensioning in combination with using snaps and tracking for an angled surface to a horizontal/vertical surface but I doubt it can reliably mimic this for a horizontal/vertical to angular surface of a combination of two non-horizontal/vertical surfaces. Extended intersection does not seem to work reliably in that case.
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I take it your using Sheet metal, understand what you want and from a lisp point of view can be done but would like a dwg to look at in case the software embeds say proxy objects.
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When you make your dimension and you want to enter your first leg point, do "Shift+RightMouseButton", select "Snap to intersection", choose the two virtual intersecting lines. Same for the other leg.
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@Wiebe van der Worp I tried this and it works some of the time but not all of the time. Part of the problem is that the snaps may not be that consistently reliable as I am experiencing.
It works most of the time if you set your first leg point on the angled surface and then intersect with the horizontal surface. The other way around is much less reliable even with extended intersections turned on in the snap.
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