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

[hansvaneven]

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

http://autode.sk/1xxoDCK (screencast)

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-...

but hence it works this way too 😉

Cheers, Hans

[TannerReid · Accepted solution]

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

[hansvaneven]

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

[TannerReid]

Awesome - glad I could help a bit.

Enjoy yourself!
Tanner

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[davebYYPCU]

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....

[Anonymous]

Thank you 

[OmegaDreams]

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 . 

[etfrench]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[clydeSHZ4S]

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