Constraints between points in two different sketches

[dzwick]

Hello guys! I am learning Inventor 2020 for hobby purposes, and since this is my first experience with CAD software, many things baffle me. At the moment, I am stuck on drawing a chip resistor. I have decided to make it a multibody part to be able to assign different materials to its terminals and body. So I drew two sketches on the XY plane, one for the terminals and one for the body. It is obvious that the body must be attached to the terminals. For this, I want to make some points on the body sketch coincide with the points on the terminals sketch. Here is the screenshot:

 

The C-shaped parts are the terminals (the first sketch), the rectangle between them is the body (the second sketch). How can I make the circled points to be coincident? Is it even possible to create constraints between different sketches?

[JDMather · Accepted solution]

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@dzwick wrote:

Is it even possible to create constraints between different sketches?

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Yes, Project Geometry points from first sketch into second sketch.

(See Attached.)

[dzwick]

Thanks! It worked! For other newbies like me I want to add some clarifications. To Project Geometry points from sketch A (the resistor's leads in my case) to sketch B (the resistor's body) you should go to sketch B, click "Project Geometry", and then select points on sketch A. My mistake was that I tried to do this while I was editing sketch A. I was literally trying to project sketch points onto itself.