# Show affected constraints during/before an operation

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/show-affected-constraints-during-before-an-operation/30769>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [March 13, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/show-affected-constraints-during-before-an-operation/30769 "2024-03-13T19:58:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![justin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ab097/32.png) [@justin](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/justin)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/show-affected-constraints-during-before-an-operation/30769/1 "2024-03-13T19:58:41Z")

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Please follow the format below for requesting a feature.

**The problem that this feature will solve:**

Quite often, I’ll make a sketch, then start modifying part of it, only to find practically the entire sketch changing as a result. Looking at the constraints doesn’t seem to give any indication of _why_ other sketch features were modified along with my modification.

**Brief description of the outcomes that you expect from this feature:**

There should be more clarity in the chain of constraints that will be (or are being) affected by a given change, more predictability of those changes, or simpler control over which constraints to take into account during a given move. When this happens, it’s almost always due to constraints I didn’t even realize were there (radius, connected points, etc). Like, I have basically no clue why this operation just destroyed my sketch:

**What can’t you achieve without this feature?**

This issue causes modifying sketches to be extremely counter-intuitive, IMO

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**Author:** ![Cjacob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Cjacob](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Cjacob)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 9:50pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/show-affected-constraints-during-before-an-operation/30769/2 "2024-03-13T21:50:34Z")

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Hello Justin,

Totally agree. Very annoying. Teaches me to be extremely careful and to “lock” critical points.

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**Author:** ![justin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ab097/32.png) [@justin](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/justin)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/show-affected-constraints-during-before-an-operation/30769/3 "2024-03-13T21:59:33Z")

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Same. I just hate that I’m kind of doing it blindly. Most of the time I see what breaks, undo, then go back and lock those points and try again. Repeat until it works.