topic Re: How to copy a Sketch to new offset plane (+ screencast workaround) in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

How to copy a Sketch to new offset plane (+ screencast workaround)

hansvaneven — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:11:49 GMT

Here is a workaround for how to copy a Sketch to a new offset plane, hope this helps 🙂

1. Make a Sketch
2. Stop Sketch
3. Create Offset plane from Sketch + start new Sketch
4. Stop Sketch
5. Go back to first Sketch and edit then select all with mouse and click "ctrl + c"
6. Stop Sketch
7. Go to second empty Sketch you created previously
8. Edit this empty Sketch
9. Do ctrl + v
10. Done 🙂

Of Course it would be helpfull if the dev team could implement a shorter way (for example just ctrl and drag to new offset plane like in my suggestion here http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation-request-a/copie-sketches-with-ctrl-drag-to-new-offset-plane/idi-p/5541012

but hence it works this way too 😉

Cheers, Hans

Re: How to copy a Sketch to new offset plane (+ screencast workaround)

TannerReid — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 13:36:49 GMT

Hi, hansvaneven,

Thanks for the suggestion and workflow!

Depending on your end goal, you might could also project sketch geometry from one plane to another. I've included a quick youtube video: https://youtu.be/zLKsUW2V_xs

Once you've created a new sketch on the offset plane, you can project geometry from the other sketch onto it.

The lines are now purple, indicating they link to outside geometry. You can unlink them by selecting them all, right clicking, and choosing "break link."

Anyone else have other thoughts on this?

Thanks!
Tanner

Re: How to copy a Sketch to new offset plane (+ screencast workaround)

hansvaneven — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 20:50:08 GMT

Hey thank you Tanner for the tip on this, very interesting, didn't knew you could also project a sketch to a new plane, very cool 🙂

thank you,

Hans

Re: How to copy a Sketch to new offset plane (+ screencast workaround)

TannerReid — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 22:05:41 GMT

Awesome - glad I could help a bit.

Enjoy yourself!
Tanner

Re: How to copy a Sketch to new offset plane (+ screencast workaround)

Anonymous — Mon, 02 May 2016 05:43:49 GMT

Hi, I think it would be really useful to be able to derive sketches as well (e.g. not copy but reference two (or more) instances of a sketch where one is the original).

Whenever you would make changes to the original sketch the derived sketches would also update, but on their reference planes...

That would be cool.

/Tnx

Mco

Re: How to copy a Sketch to new offset plane (+ screencast workaround)

Anonymous — Mon, 02 May 2016 07:41:31 GMT

Hi Martin,

Projected sketches are linked. Change the original and the projected sketch automatically updates.

If you want the projected sketch to be independent, simply unlink it.

I am fairly new to Fusion 360, so I hope this helps.

Re: How to copy a Sketch to new offset plane (+ screencast workaround)

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 22:21:30 GMT

Sorry to comment on an old thread but is there a way to project an entire sketch instead of selecting individual lines and curves? Marquee selection doesn't seem to work when selecting.

Re: How to copy a Sketch to new offset plane (+ screencast workaround)

davebYYPCU — Sun, 29 Apr 2018 00:10:21 GMT

Short answer is no.

With a preference setting you can auto project the face of an object when creating a sketch on the face of the object, but for the entire sketch, copy paste is the usual workflow.

But if the "Projections" are required you have found it is select each one.

might help....

Re: How to copy a Sketch to new offset plane (+ screencast workaround)

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 03:42:38 GMT

Thank you

Re: How to copy a Sketch to new offset plane (+ screencast workaround)

OmegaDreams — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 23:37:58 GMT

this projection method only work s if the planes are paralell to eachother..
i need to clone a sketch on to multiple faces of an object . all in a circular pattern and rotating to match at 60 degree angles.. copy and paste does not work as teh sketch becomes unconstrained and may not align perfectly .

Re: How to copy a Sketch to new offset plane (+ screencast workaround)

etfrench — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 00:03:06 GMT

If you don't need to edit the patterned sketches individually, put the sketch in its own component. Pattern the component. If you do need to edit the individual sketches, put the edits in the sketch before doing the pattern similar to the technique in this thread.

Re: How to copy a Sketch to new offset plane (+ screencast workaround)

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 14:25:13 GMT

Use Solidworks if you need to do derived sketches. You'll save lots of time not having to mess with a low-end software like Fusion. My employer switched to Fusion to save a couple bucks not realizing that it now takes at least twice as long for us engineers to design stuff because of the lack of features.

Re: How to copy a Sketch to new offset plane (+ screencast workaround)

clydeSHZ4S — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 10:15:09 GMT

The video is private. Couldn't you just have described the process in your reply?