FIND SKETCH WORK PLANE

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know how to find which work plane a sketch was originally created on via a tool or macro? either for an assembly or part? Similar to the constraint 'find other' tool.

I have very large assemblies with thousands of work planes, it can be very time consuming trying to work out which sketch is based off which work plane. Currently I rely on naming and memory.

I have seen a similar post on these forums requesting Autodesk to add such a tool since 2004.

[mercerc]

I agree that would be a useful tool to have in Inventor. I did a quick search in some of the tools supplied with Inventor and 3D party tools and I could see anything close to your request.

            You may want to post a similar request to the Autodesk Inventor Customization discussion group to see if someone has developed or is planning to develop something along these lines.

            Another option it to submit this as a wish list item. You can do that at the link below.

Wish list items:  http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=1109794

Charlie

[Anonymous]

Thanks for replying, I will do that.

I am amazed there are so few threads with users requesting this solution.

When creating multibody parts with linked parts or when creating derived assemblies, it is critical to know which sketches are related to their parent workplanes in order to understand how a model will react to changes.

Especially when more than one sketch is created from the same workplane - this is when naming workplanes and sketches becomes difficult and one has to rely on memory alone.

How would a second user who is not familiar with the model work this out!

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! There is actually an implicit way to do that. For unconsumed sketch, you can simply drag the sketch icon in the browser upward until you cannot reorder it anymore. That roadblock is usually the parent feature where the sketch is based off. For consumed unshared sketch, you simply share the sketch and do the same reordering to find the parent.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much.

I would still hope that Autodesk would add a tool to automate this process.

I found with large complicated browser hierarchy's, including folders, the above method is still very laborious, requiring expansion of elements etc and allot of scrolling and analyzing.

I will however take this tip

Thanks again.