Hi, I’m new to Shapr3D (and 3D printing and CAD as well). I’m trying to add circular cut-outs on the side of a box to match the connectors on my circuit board which will be housed inside. How do I measure where to put the holes? I have the measurements as to where the holes should go, but can’t figure out how to place the circles at those exact points. When I use the measurement tool, it does not give me the real time measures as I drag the line so I have no way of knowing the measurement until I release the mouse button.
Welcome to the community. Everyone here started just like you. don’t sweat it.
I do recommend you go through all the tutorials that Shapr has to offer. They are very quick to pickup and learn. Much more so than the Fusion360 or Onshape, or Solidworks.
In the sketch, use the construction lines to get dimensions, exactly where you want them to land, then when you create a circle, you can start its center where the construction lines cross
the only way to move it after the dot indicates the “snap” you can only move it by changing the dimensions. You can always select all the lines affected and choose “disconect” if you accidentally “snapped” to the wrong place… or delete the circle and draw it again. (which usually is faster to do)
dimensions are your friend.
anything you move in the sketch makes a change on everything after it in the history. which means you can go back even after 100 changes and move that first circle you drew over a little (or a lot) or even change the height of the box, and it will recalculate it to the very point you are currently at.
So, having a good drawing at the very beginning of the creation of your object makes all the changes you want very easy.
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What an amazing reply! I will work through your tutorial and hopefully be able to replicate it. Thanks!!
If you want to split things in 3rds e.g. you can draw 3 consecutive line segments (say within a rectangle or on a face), then select the 3 segments and choose the = constraint. Quick, easy and useful for finding centers of shapes and other fun stuff.
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