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Removing concentricity in a sketch

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Jan 27, 2009
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Sketching in SW09 SP3 I have 2 arcs which are unintentionally concentric.
Is there a way of removing the concentricity without having to delete and redraw one of the arcs?
I read that in 05 you could hold ctrl, drag one arc to a new position, and release the ctrl key. This doesnt work for me.

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Go to View -> Sketch Relations

You will see little icons in your sketch, hover over them to see what they are, simply click and delete the concentric relation.

This is extremely handy and it works really well, couldn't work with them!

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Alternatively, select the arc and you will see all the relations of that arc in the property manger. Simply select the relation from there.

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Should have added more detail to my original post.
The arcs were concentric, but there was no concentric relationship present.

Apparently you can't do the ctrl+drag trick while editing a part in an assembly?
Strange given that the part was driven by the assembly, including the sketch in question.
Editing the sketch in the part itself I was able to break the concentricity using the ctrl+drag trick.

Thanks
 
Once the centerpoints are merged, concentricity is implicit and difficult to remove.

Sometimes I move one arc using Tools --> Sketch Tools --> Move. You may end up losing other constraints to accomplish this.
 
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