[coldtea]

>I can't imagine how you could even design something in CAD in a way that you would end up in this situation.

Are all CAD programs parametric or make their parametric functionality obvious? If not, that's how you end up in this situation.

[zargon]

It's not about parametric functionality being obvious, it's that you can't draw something that isn't parametric in the sense described. At least I don't think I would be able to if I tried.

[coldtea]

It's pretty trivial