Sketcher Contrainte d'aide

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Vue d'ensemble

Exemple de contrainte d'aide (Constraint5 - point sur cercle) pour une contrainte tangente (Constraint6; en mode tangente-par-point). Une seule contrainte d'aide est utilisée dans ce cas, puisque le point de tangence est l'extrémité du diamètre majeur de l'ellipse, qui repose intrinsèquement sur l'ellipse.

La contrainte Helper est une contrainte d'esquisse régulière nécessaire dans le cadre d'une contrainte plus complexe, mais exposée dans l'interface utilisateur pour faciliter la redondance. Par exemple, pour la contrainte Snell's Law, les deux lignes représentant les rayons lumineux doivent être connectées ( contrainte coïncidente), et l'articulation doit se trouver sur l'interface ( Point sur Objet Contrainte).

Helper constraints are added automatically when they are needed. The decision for if they are needed is currently made by evaluating the helper constraint error for current state of geometry (this may change in future versions). If the error is small enough, the constraint is considered to be unnecessary, and is not added. In some cases, this logic can lead to errors (the constraint can be satisfied by accident, which can easily happen when Sketcher Grid Snapping is on).

If this happens (a helper constraint is missing, and the required conditions is not satisfied otherwise), the complex constraint will be broken. It will do something, but the actual behavior is undefined. Such a broken constraint can be repaired by adding the missing helper constraint manually.

Helper constraints are currently required for:

Scripting

When constraints requiring helpers are added from Python, no helper constraints are automatically added. One can replicate the automatic decision-making of the UI commands in a script by testing the following functions, specifically added for the purpose and used in the UI routines:

Sketch.isPointOnCurve(icurve,x,y)

isPointOnCurve tests if a virtual point, given by sketch coordinates x,y (float values), happens to satisfy a virtual point-on-object constraint - i.e. lies on curve specified by curve index icurve. Returns True if the point is on curve, and False if it doesn't.

Sketch.calculateConstraintError(iconstr)

calculateConstraintError evaluates an error function of a constraint specified by its index iconstr in the sketch. If there is only one error function in the constraint, the return value is the signed return value of the error function. If there is more than one error function associated with the constraint (i.e. the constraint removes more than one degree of freedom), the return value is the RMS of all the error functions (always positive).

Version

Helper constraints were introduced in v0.15.4387