Sketching in drafting and using driving dimensions to position sketch lines

[DLH81]

I am running NX8 and I am trying to position a sketch line at an angle off of a face of a cylinder (see attached). I went into the style menu of the view and under the general tab changed the extracted edges option to associative. I can grab the edge of the cylinder shown in the view and use a driving dimension to position the endpoint of the line at a certain distance. However, when I try to put in an angular dimension to position the line at an angle from the cylinder face, I am unable to select the extracted edge to put in that value. Any ideas on how to accomplish this? Thanks.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Extracting the edges won't help since the 'end' of the Cylinder is extracted as an Arc. What you need to do is to add a line that can be referenced when creating your Angle dimension, as shown in the attached video clip.

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