Sketcher CompCreateRectangles
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Menu location |
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None |
Workbenches |
Sketcher |
Default shortcut |
None |
Introduced in version |
0.20 |
See also |
None |
Description
Create rectangle is an icon button in the Sketcher geometries toolbar that groups tools to create rectangles. Click on the down arrow to its right to expand the icons below it and select a tool.
Types of rectangles
Rectangle: Draws a rectangle from 2 opposite points.
Centered rectangle: Draws a rectangle from a central point and an edge point. introduced in version 0.20
Rounded rectangle: Draws a rounded rectangle from 2 opposite points. introduced in version 0.20
Notes
- When launched any of these tools adds a Rectangle parameters section at the top of the Sketcher Task panel (introduced in version 0.22). It contains:
- A Mode spinbox to chose one of the modes to draw the rectangle:
- Corner, length & width
- Center, length & width
- 3 corners
- Center and two corners
- A Rounded corners checkbox to apply round corners to the rectangle.
- A Frame checkbox to add a contour with a constant offset to the (rounded) rectangle.
- All three buttons in this selection now launch the same tool but with different preset combinations of mode and options that can still be altered after the first click.
- If Rounded corners is enabled, the offset is inward, and the offset value is larger than the corner radius, the offset contour will be created without fillets.
- The modes 3 corners, and Center and two corners create parallelograms rather than rectangles.
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- Sketcher constraints:
- Geometric constraints: Coincident, Point on object, Vertical, Horizontal, Parallel, Perpendicular, Tangent, Equal, Symmetric, Block
- Dimensional constraints: Lock, Horizontal distance, Vertical distance, Distance, Radius or weight, Diameter, Auto radius/diameter, Angle, Refraction (Snell's law)
- Constraint tools: Toggle driving/reference constraint, Activate/deactivate constraint
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- Sketcher B-spline tools: Show/hide B-spline degree, Show/hide B-spline control polygon, Show/hide B-spline curvature comb, Show/hide B-spline knot multiplicity, Show/hide B-spline control point weight, Convert geometry to B-spline, Increase B-spline degree, Decrease B-spline degree, Increase knot multiplicity, Decrease knot multiplicity, Insert knot, Join curves
- Sketcher virtual space: Switch virtual space
- Additional: Sketcher Dialog, Preferences, Sketcher scripting

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