Thanks Jeff,
I've never actually used the 3D sketches. I think I'll have a bit of a
tinker around with them at home, and see what I can come up with,
Cheers
--Rob Singlehurst
"Jeff Howard" wrote in message
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> Rob, while projected cut edges aren't associative, you can get something
that
> might do what you want by using 3D Sketch > 3D Intersection. Use a work
plane
> for one of the intersecting surfaces. If you are trying to reference cut
> edges of another part it requires jumping through a couple of additional
> hoops, but can be done, usually requiring creating construction surfaces
> (their edges can be projected "cross part" associatively, while sketch
> elements cannot) or deriving the referenced part in as surfaces.
>
> Another limitation: you can't extrude / revolve a 3D Sketch, but can get
the
> same thing by lofting between two sections or projecting the 3D Sketch
> elements onto a 2D Sketch.
>
> Good luck with it,
> Jeff
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> "Rob Singlehurst" wrote in message
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> I'm creating a part sketch by using the Project Cut Edges command.
Looking
> in the help it says this is associative i.e. if I change the parent
geometry
> the cut edges will update. Is this correct or not as it doesn't appear to
> be working for me.
> I know in 5.3 it wasn't associative so is it just the help files being a
bit
> too hopeful
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Rob Singlehurst
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