AutoConsume / Auto Share Sketch Application Options

[petestrycharske]

All,

Good morning!  I was working on something the other day and came across a couple of ideas that I liked, but wanted to create a variation on them.  Sometimes we spend a bit more time than we'd like sharing sketches and trying to access the information that we need during modeling.  One idea is to allow other geometry to bleed through the shaded model when working on a sketch or turning its visibility on.  The second idea is to automatically share the last sketch when creating a new feature.  My idea is to add an Application Option to the Part or Sketch tab to allow users the choice to toggle AutoConsume of sketches in features on and off (similar to the Work Feature AutoConsume).  That could expedite the process of sharing sketches a little bit and one could tie in a "Keep Visible" sub-option as well.  Please let me know if you have any questions and I'd be happy to help clarify.  Hope all is well and have a most blessed day!

Peace,

Pete

[lmc.engineering]

+1 to this. I was about to add this suggestion myself, but here it is. Better worded than I would have done!

Please let us toggle consume sketch. It's a pain to be using 2D and 3D sketches to create patches, and have to turn everything back on after each patch is added.. it's driving me a little mad!

[malcolm_smith]

I realise that this is an old idea, but I'm doing exactly what @lmc.engineering  is doing with creating patches, and it drives me mad as well.  And not just with patch creation. More often than not I will want to re-use a sketch immediately and I'm forever having to go into the browser to turn sketch visibility back on. I don't really understand why it's not already an option.