How do I see which profile a sketch is attached to?

glencandle · ‎09-05-2021

Hello, I want to move one of my sketches down, but I cannot figure out which profile it is attached to. Is there a way to find this out?

My goal is to create a new offset profile for the sketch, but I don't have a reference for how much offset to add on the new profile.

jhackney1972 · ‎09-05-2021

Most of the time you can right click on the Feature in the timeline and chose Edit Sketch and it will either light it up in the Browser or on the design desktop. If you are not using a timeline, you should be.

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TheCADWhisperer · ‎09-06-2021

@glencandle wrote:
….but I cannot figure out which profile it is attached to. Is there a way to find this out?

Attach your *.f3d file here and I will figure it out for you and then describe how I figured it out.

glencandle · ‎09-11-2021

Thanks John, appreciate the video. I just realized I asked my question wrong... what I meant was:

How do I reveal which *construction plane* my sketch is attached to?

Sorry for the confusion!

davebYYPCU · ‎09-11-2021

Turn the eyeballs for the Construction planes to Visible.

Would be unlikely to have more than one plane overlapping.

No file, no answers, just guessing from known appropriate workflows.

For newbies, all bets are off.

Might help....

jhackney1972 · ‎09-11-2021

There is not direct way to do this but I will add to @davebYYPCU answer by saying, after you turn on the construction plane, you can resize it to cover your sketch and then visually confirm it was the one you used. Also, often after creating a construction plane in your timeline, the next thing you do is a sketch so that is an identifier also.

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glencandle · ‎09-11-2021

Well this makes perfect sense, thanks, and I never realized you could resize planes by dragging on the edges!

I am a noob but getting to know the software pretty deeply. I was hoping there would just be a way to identify which plane a sketch is attached to, be that the face of another object, a construction plane, etc.

Just for the sake of discussion... if you had made a sketch on the face of an object, and then later you wanted to identify the parent of the plane... how would you do it? Would you have to just have the object and the sketch on and visually eyeball it? I feel like there should be a more surefire way of doing this.

davebYYPCU · ‎09-11-2021

So much easier if we are talking about your data.

In simple files, you being the author of the sketch, are just as likely to know why you put that sketch where it is.

In your first message you said,

My goal is to create a new offset profile for the sketch, but I don't have a reference for how much offset to add on the new profile.

TheCADWhisperer · ‎09-12-2021

@glencandle wrote:
... if you had made a sketch on the face of an object…

Use the BORN Technique as much as possible and practical.