Sharing sketches is a means of controlling multiple features on a face
or surface of a part with one sketch. For example, you could create a
cube and start a sketch on one face and place a hole center and then
create a hole thru that part. If you also wanted a boss on the same
face, rather than start a new sketch, you could share the sketch the
hole was created with, edit that sketch to include a circle that you
could the extrude to create the boss. Now both features are controlled
from the same sketch.
Using shared sketches and by moving the EOP (End of Part) marker up and
down the feature browser, you can keep features controlled by a shared
sketch together. This technique can be particularly useful when working
on sheet metal parts because you can keep all features on a given face
together and controlled by a common sketch. It also makes finding
features in the browser much easier.
kpinks wrote:
> I am trying to understand what the purpose of sharing sketches is? When would I need to use that?. It appears that it just creates another copy of the same sketch that changes when the original changes. Could someone please shed some light on this for me?
> Thx
> Kev
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