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88 CHAPTER 3 Working With SketcheS and reference geometry
Figure 3.32
automatic relations
appear on the cursor.
better off to fully define a sketch manually. Although it may seem odd for someone in my position
to say this, you are better off with a fully undefined sketch than a large sketch that is fully defined
with random dimensions in it. (See Figure 3.33.) Troubleshooting something that goes wrong with
a very large sketch can take a lot of time, while a fully undefined sketch can never go wrong
unless you move it with the cursor. If your sketch is large, consider breaking it up in multiple
features. If it has a lot of small entities, try using sketch relations, which are more flexible than
dimensions.
Figure 3.33
fully defining a sketch
automatically can
make a mess.
