What's sketch shading indicate? How to copy?

[jskinner58]

I had a couple letters I needed to enlarge in a sketch.  Only way I could figure to do it was to extrude them and then enlarge and then project them back onto plane.  That seemed to work but now these objects (the "TM" in the attachment) are shaded differently and not sure what that indicates.  I did some other changes and saved it as a new name.  Now the TM is missing.  Not sure what happened to it.  I tried to go back and copy it from the old file.  Was able to copy but couldn't paste it into new file.  Suggestions?

[PhilProcarioJr]

@jskinner58

By shading do you mean how they are filled in orange and the other letters are not?

[jskinner58]

Exactly.  I have clicked off the sketch and moved the cursor off them so these shapes aren't selected or anything like that would normally make them shaded.  So clearly something is different about them.

[PhilProcarioJr]

I thought that it meant it was a closed shape. I always remember it being that way unless I am thinking of something else.

[jskinner58]

Not just a closed shape as I have other closed shapes (and some are simple circles done in Fusion rather than imported so they shouldn't have any issues) and they don't appear this way.  The closed shapes do highlight similarly in some situations like when you hover over them but I am not doing that and the shading is slightly darker.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hello @jskinner58

What this means, is that these closed shapes from different sketches are overlapping.

Open a new file, create a sketch with a rectangle and a few other shapes.

Create a new sketch and make more shapes that overlap - the shading gets "darker" because there are two (or more) sketch elements from different sketches sitting on top of one another.

In your case, it means the "tm" is on a different sketch than the rectangle behind it - which also explains why it didn't come along when you copied.

I made a screencast herewhich should help you see what I mean.

Hope this helps!

[jskinner58]

Autumn,

That definately helps although I am a little unclear on shapes within a sketch vs. the whole sketch.  For example, I have letter outlines on my sketch and those don't show up shaded except when I hover over them or click on them.  But the larger outline always is shaded.  I think it is parts of a sketch vs. the whole sketch. 

I previously extruded the letters, scaled them, then projected them back to a sketch (can't scale a portion of a sketch directly apparently) which is why they ended up as a separate sketch.  Don't know how it went away - must have by mistake without realizing it somehow.  But I can go back to a file that includes it.

The outlines are on different sketches but I don't think that really matters for what I want to do.  My plan is to make a block with the sketches on one face and extrude the shapes into (cutting out of the block) or out of (adding to the block). 

Is there any way to slow down the screen casts?  They go so fast I usually have to watch them several times.

Thanks!