Creating a sketch from a face, with edges imported

KimSJ

Forgive me if I've missed the obvious. I want to create a sketch from a face, and import some of the edges of that face into the sketch. How do I do that?

owen_sparks

Check out the "use" command from within the sketch.   White squar-ish icon on the tool bar.  That'll project faces, edges, vertices etc onto your sketch.

Shout if it doesn't make sense.

Owen S.

owen_sparks

Check out the "use" command from within the sketch.   White squar-ish icon on the tool bar.  That'll project faces, edges, vertices etc onto your sketch.

Shout if it doesn't make sense.

Owen S.

KimSJ

Ah. Just realized you can only use "use" on edges, not faces. (why not? That's why I was getting "Could not project the selected entities into the current sketch." Thanks for your help.

owen_sparks

Sure thing.  That's odd, Using a whole face usually works, but will project just the outline, not any inner loops.

@philip_thomas can you shed any light here please?

Cheers, Owen S.

kevin_o_toole_1

Not Philip, but I believe "use" on a face will work unless the face is wholly or partially perpendicular to the sketch (the same is true for "use" on edges but it's less common).

It would be much easier to understand your case if you linked to a public document! See the forum post checklist.

Cris_Bowers

Using a face also only seems to work if you select the face after selecting the use command. When I select the face first I always get the "Could not project the selected entities into the current sketch." error.

philip_thomas

I believe that Kevin has acted appropriately as my proxy

owen_sparks

Thank you Mr. AlternativeLightShedder.

Owen S.

owen_sparks

philip_thomas said:

I believe that Kevin has acted appropriately as my proxy

Too Slow Chinckenmarango.