Can I combine two seperate sketches drawn at different times?

[Anonymous]

Hi-

I have two sketches of box that were created at different times on the timeline (the front half and the rear half of the box).

Now, as the project has progressed, I wish to combine the front and rear halves to make it one box--and NOT use the "combine" command as components--because I have to make changes to the sketch(es).

Is this possible to do without re-sketching one half of the box onto the second half?

Thank you in advance.

-G

[shekar_sub · Accepted solution]

Hi,

There is no separate command to combine two sketches into one. However one option is you can Project one sketch into another using the Sketch->Project/Include->Sketch command. Please see attached picture.

Unless we see the actual file which has the issue it is hard to guess. However here is an example to explain what I mean.

In 2sketch.f3d I have 2 sketches let's say Sketch1 and Sketch2

In 2sketchproj.f3d I edited  Sketch2 and projected Sketch1 into Sketch2. Now Sketch2 has both the sketches in them.

Please see attached examples.  Please ensure that the sketch you are combining into is after the sketch in the timeline that you want to combine from. Does this work for you?

Regards

shekar

[TrippyLighting]

I am not sure what yu're trying to do is even necessary. Can you share your design ?

[Anonymous]

Shekar-

This actually works fine. I didn't realize I could project a sketch onto another sketch.

By creating this third sketch (the combo of the two sketches) I have the ability to maintain the individual halves if I should want them for a different method of creating them in real life.

This is the reason for the necessity of combining the two halves--I'm having them (it) injection molded, and the two halves needed to be combined as drawn.

Thanks for your time and reply all.

Greg

AFTERWORD:

I experimented with Projecting the actual bodies of the boxes and was surprised to see that all the intricacies of sketches (of them) transferred! I only had experience with projecting holes--simple, simple sketches and thought that only the outer lines of the body would project.

[shekar_sub]

Hi Greg,

>I experimented with Projecting the actual bodies of the boxes and was surprised to see that all the intricacies of sketches (of them) transferred

Yes. That's good to know that things are getting transferred correctly.

Regards

Shekar

[michaelwilkinsonP94CN]

Another method is to select all of the sketch items that you want, CTRL-C to copy, then Create a New Sketch, then paste.  This is great when you'd like to take several sketches and combine them into one to export to DXF, for example.   Right Click on the sketch and "Export to DXF".

[andris310]

You can copy and paste. I was searching and searching online on how to do this but besides projecting and some other "interesting" ways nobody was explaining how to do this until I came across this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCgr5WNt6RA

In short, select the sketch with the drag selector, then use Ctrl+C and go to the sketch you want to paste it in and key here is to go into sketch mode and only then paste (Ctrl+V on mac) and it will allow you to reposition the pasted sketch.