Dynamic Constraint Lines: Horizontal or Vertical Alignment

Notes:

The constraints that appear on the screen depend on which entities are currently in the display area. For example, you will not see parallel constraint to a line that is not in the display.
If you want to create alignments with entities that are not in the current sketch, you must add the entities to the sketch as reference entities.
You can also add constraints after entities are created. See Adding Constraints.
You can control which constraint lines appear by the Constraint Filter.

Dashed Orange Constraint Lines

Horizontal / Vertical

When a new line approaches horizontal or vertical alignment, a dashed orange constraint line is displayed next to the new line.

The following examples show the dashed orange lines indicating line 4 is close to alignment with the X or Y axis.

Line 4 will be vertical.	Line 4 will be horizontal.

Dashed Purple Constraint Lines

Same X or same Y constraint

When the end point of a new line and the end point of an existing line are horizontally or vertically aligned (same X or Y coordinate), a dashed purple line appears connecting the two points. You can then create a new line connecting the two points.

In the following examples, the end point of line 4 is horizontally or vertically aligned with an existing line's end point coordinate (point A or point B).

The endpoint of line 4 will be horizontal from point A.	The endpoint of line 4 will be vertical from point B.	The endpoint of line 4 will be horizontal from point A and vertical from point B.

Note: When you use Dynamic Constraint Lines to help you position a new entity, the new entity will be constrained to either the existing entity or the XY axis. When the new entity is positioned relative to an existing entity, a mutual constraint relationship is created with the existing entity. If required, you can subsequently break an entity's constraints to make it independent of all other entities and the XY axis.