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after bashing my head in my table for a bit, i finally managed to make something "salvagable"... i think.

this is meant to be a vesa adapter, from 200mm to 100mm; the idea is that 6mm metal screw-posts are melted into the holes

the sketch is quite a bit of a hellscape... i will see if i can figure out symmetry on the next iteration. Do you have any advice on how i can use better this program? it's been quite a bit since i haven't seen such a steep learning curve on a piece of software

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[–] BRINGit34@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think the sketch could be salvaged quite a bit by moving your measurements around. A lot of them are stacked on each other.

Symmetry is a lot easier than it is made out to be. On square shapes like you have you would essentially select opposite corners then your origin (0,0) it would automatically make your square centered.

Equality constraints would also clean this sketch up a lot since you have a lot of areas that are identical.

I'd be happy to look it over if you could send the file somehow

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