Copy Sketch to another Plane?

[FrontlineFusionLtd]

Hello,

  I have found out that i can pattern sketch planes,  but how do i pattern the sketch to go along with that plane?  ( having to open each plane into a sketch and Project Geometry is a possibility.. but its time consuming and cumbersome.  Is there another way? )

[Xun.Zhang]

Hi,

To be honest, it's not a common case. In you case, seems sketch block might be helpful with copy and paste.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

I had encountered it too. Think about decorations in wood-workings which are done by sweeping the same sketch over different raised (extruded) profiles.It is a very common pattern there. See this picture for an example:

Different profiles decorated with the same Sweep

I exported it to DXF and reloaded it in the next sketch - waay to cumbersome .

[Xun.Zhang]

Hi John,

Thanks for the additional information! Forwarding to porject team to see if any improvement can be considered in short.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Hi Xun,

Thanks a lot!

I am at your disposition with any help needed.

More additional info:

There is a better way if we want to copy an ENTIRE sketch on a plane.

Steps:

1. In Model, select the desired Sketch, RMB and choose Copy

2. Go and create a new empty sketch on the desired plane

3. RMB and choose Paste

Rather good way.

However this will be a problem wrt projected geometry.

The problem is if someone wants to copy just a part(s) from a sketch. Allow Copy / Paste to work there.

[Xun.Zhang]

Hi John,

Yeah... We needs you definitely!!

Thank you for offering help here.

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! Another option you may consider is to make the sketch geometry a sketch block. In 2D Sketch environment, right-click on the Ribbon -> enable Layout section. There is a command called "Create a Block", which works fairly similar to AutoCAD's BLOCK command. After you define a sketch block, you can insert it in any 2D sketch in the part. Or derive it to another part.

Many thanks!

[Anonymous]

Hi @johnsonshiue !

Thanks a lot for the suggestion!

I knew it - @Xun.Zhang mentioned it too.

They are very, very important because it maintain a live link between master and clones.

That's why I mentioned the Copy / Paste parts of a sketch which is a means to offline reuse some work.

What it is missing at blocks and it (should be) simple to implement is Export Sketch Block as...

[Anonymous]

This is very simple!!

Just select the drawing and right click on mouse select clipboard option select copy and paste to the drawing plane you want to

or

simply select cntrl+c and select the drawing plane you want and use cntrl+v....