Hi,
Is there a quick way to offset a sketch object in the Z-Axis?
I know I can create an offset plane, start a new sketch and project the existing item. It would be nice is I could use the offset feature to make it easier.
I was going to loft an item (beer keg) and measured the center line at each of the points the shape changes. However where the shape changes there are actually 30mm wide bands. So I wanted to duplicate the sketch object +/- 15mm in Z, like my photoshoped image here.
It would depend when they were created. If you right click on the sketch in the Design tree or the timeline, you will see an option to "redefine sketch plane". That might get you what you are looking for..
@ssashton - you can definitely do this all in one sketch, with the Move command. It's a neat little parlor trick. Personally, I would not do it that way, though, because you will lose the ability to easily change the Z offset of each profile by tweaking a parameter. IMO, it's worth the pain now to make subsequent editing easier later. But, if you really want to do it that way, here is how you do it. I have no idea why that one circle refused to budge, I suspect it was constrained to the origin (which cannot move), but you get the idea:
Have to say my preferred method for something like this would be draw a cross section and revolve. It would all be in one sketch you could drive parametrically. Probably just as quick to draw and you'd have a good idea how it's going to look in the sketch.
Mark
Mark Hughes
Owner, Hughes Tooling
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