Multi Select Points of other Sketches while doing "Include 3D Geometry"

[marc.frank]

Hi

Well, yeah, that's about it, actually.

I have a bunch of sketches with a bunch of points in each of them.

Now I want to combine all the points into a single 3D sketch.

So, I create a new Sketch, enable 3D Sketch, select "Include 3D Geometry", try to click and drag a box to select all visible points, but ... no box appears. 😕

Doesn't work with freeform or paint selection either.

And selecting the points before doing "Include 3D Geometry" doesn't work, too.

Multi selecting the points before doing "Include 3D Geometry" only works with freeform or paint selection.

Window selection doesn't select the points of other sketches.

[marc.frank]

[marc.frank]

Idividually selecting all points to include in the sketch would work.

But I don't want to do that for 2041 Points ...

[hamid.sh.]

As far as I know Include 3D Geometry works with a single entity at a time. So even if you use Selection Set that includes all of your points, after initiating Include 3D Geometry command selecting from Selection Set leads to inclusion of only one point and waiting for the next selection. You have to hit Select of Selection Set 2041 times. Easier than individually clicking each point but still ridiculous (unless you use a mouse clicking macro to hit same point 2041 times). I consider this a problem of Include 3D Geometry.

If I am guessing correctly from your pictures each bunch of your points are in a single plane. If that's true the better option you have is to use Project To Surface; in your new sketch use this command to project points of each sketch to their own plane. Here Window Selection works. Repeat this for the number of previous sketches you have (34?) and you'll get all of your points in this new sketch.

[marc.frank]

Thanks.

But I don't see how project would work in this case.

There are 34 vertical planes with 34 Sketches, each having 149 Points.

Projecting them to a surface would collapse the 3D volume they enclose.

[hamid.sh.]

Aren't for example these group of points drawn in a 2D sketch on a plane?

[marc.frank]

yes

[hamid.sh. · Accepted solution]

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@hamid.sh. wrote:

... use Project To Surface; in your new sketch use this command to project points of each sketch to their own plane...

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@marc.frank Then what I suggested works! I suggested projecting them on their own plane; points of sketch 1 to plane of sketch 1, points of sketch 2 to plane of sketch 2 and so on, not every point to the same surface. Maybe this screencast makes it clear.

[marc.frank]

works great, thanks a lot 🙂

the plane to be projected on has to be close to all the points

so i had to drag the edges, but that's alright

[hamid.sh.]

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the plane to be projected on has to be close to all the points

so i had to drag the edges, but that's alright

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Glad it helped, but I don't understand this. Isn't it that for each sketch, points are drawn on the plane of that sketch? That is I assume you have 34 planes, each 149 points of a sketch belong to the plane of their sketch. So they ARE already close (well at 0 distance from the plane).