topic Re: Copy Sketch to another Plane? in Inventor Forum

Copy Sketch to another Plane?

FrontlineFusionLtd — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 05:05:22 GMT

Hello,

I have found out that i can pattern sketch planes, but how do i pattern the sketch to go along with that plane? ( having to open each plane into a sketch and Project Geometry is a possibility.. but its time consuming and cumbersome. Is there another way? )

Re: Copy Sketch to another Plane?

Xun.Zhang — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 07:24:57 GMT

Hi,

To be honest, it's not a common case. In you case, seems sketch block might be helpful with copy and paste.

Thanks

Re: Copy Sketch to another Plane?

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:06:44 GMT

I had encountered it too. Think about decorations in wood-workings which are done by sweeping the same sketch over different raised (extruded) profiles.It is a very common pattern there. See this picture for an example:

Different profiles decorated with the same Sweep

I exported it to DXF and reloaded it in the next sketch - waay to cumbersome .

Re: Copy Sketch to another Plane?

Xun.Zhang — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:19:08 GMT

Hi John,

Thanks for the additional information! Forwarding to porject team to see if any improvement can be considered in short.

Thanks!

Re: Copy Sketch to another Plane?

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:59:34 GMT

Hi Xun,

Thanks a lot!

I am at your disposition with any help needed.

More additional info:

There is a better way if we want to copy an ENTIRE sketch on a plane.

Steps:

1. In Model, select the desired Sketch, RMB and choose Copy

2. Go and create a new empty sketch on the desired plane

3. RMB and choose Paste

Rather good way.

However this will be a problem wrt projected geometry.

The problem is if someone wants to copy just a part(s) from a sketch. Allow Copy / Paste to work there.

Re: Copy Sketch to another Plane?

Xun.Zhang — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 09:06:24 GMT

Hi John,

Yeah... We needs you definitely!!

Thank you for offering help here.

Re: Copy Sketch to another Plane?

johnsonshiue — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:25:08 GMT

Hi! Another option you may consider is to make the sketch geometry a sketch block. In 2D Sketch environment, right-click on the Ribbon -> enable Layout section. There is a command called "Create a Block", which works fairly similar to AutoCAD's BLOCK command. After you define a sketch block, you can insert it in any 2D sketch in the part. Or derive it to another part.

Many thanks!

Re: Copy Sketch to another Plane?

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:20:09 GMT

Hi @johnsonshiue !

Thanks a lot for the suggestion!

I knew it - @Xun.Zhang mentioned it too.

They are very, very important because it maintain a live link between master and clones.

That's why I mentioned the Copy / Paste parts of a sketch which is a means to offline reuse some work.

What it is missing at blocks and it (should be) simple to implement is Export ~~Sketch~~ Block as...

Re: Copy Sketch to another Plane?

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 06:37:52 GMT

This is very simple!!

Just select the drawing and right click on mouse select clipboard option select copy and paste to the drawing plane you want to

simply select cntrl+c and select the drawing plane you want and use cntrl+v....