Disabling automatic contour creation on new sketch

[Anonymous]

Hi everbody,

I'm currently working on a model and it annoys me a bit that whenever i create a new Sketch a Center Point is created automatically (okay thats quite useful for the first sketch) and when I create a sketch on a face of an extrusion, the shape of that face is automatically projected as lines in my new sketch.

Usually I don't need that "projection" - is there a way to disable this feature?

I'm using Inventor Professional 2014 Student edition.

Regards,

Max

PS: I just noticed that I can't snap to center and corner points after deleting the projected shape (obviously), so I guess there is no way around this?

[Anonymous]

Hi everbody,

I'm currently working on a model and it annoys me a bit that whenever i create a new Sketch a Center Point is created automatically (okay thats quite useful for the first sketch) and when I create a sketch on a face of an extrusion, the shape of that face is automatically projected as lines in my new sketch.

Usually I don't need that "projection" - is there a way to disable this feature?

I'm using Inventor Professional 2014 Student edition.

Regards,

Max

PS: I just noticed that I can't snap to center and corner points after deleting the projected shape (obviously), so I guess there is no way around this?

[Curtis_Waguespack · Accepted solution]

Hi Xaser,

Go to the Tools tab > Application Options button > Sketch tab and uncheck these options:

- Autoproject edges during curve creation

- Autoproject part origin on sketch create (personally I would recommend that you leave this one selected)

Once disabled you can choose to project only the geometry you want into your sketch by using the Project Geometry tool.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com