Can't Sketch on Plane Created with opPlane

matthew_mueller295

Hello,

I am trying to create a new plane using opPlane, then create new sketch features on it. The plane shows up, but not the sketch. The body of the FS code is below. Thanks!

        var plane1 = opPlane(context, id + "plane1", {

                "plane" : plane(vector(0, 0, 2) * inch, vector(0, 0, 1), vector(1, 0, 0)),

                "width" : 6 * inch,

                "height" : 6 * inch

        });

        

        var sketch1 = newSketch(context, id + "sketch1", {

                "sketchPlane" : qCreatedBy(makeId("plane1"), EntityType.FACE)

        });

        // Create sketch entities here

        skText(sketch1, "text1", {

                "text" : "Hello",

                "fontName" : "OpenSans-Regular.ttf",

                "firstCorner" : vector(0, 0) * inch,

                "secondCorner" : vector(1, 1) * inch

        });

        skSolve(sketch1);

_anton

Morning! The issue is where you're placing the sketch:

"sketchPlane" : qCreatedBy(makeId("plane1"), EntityType.FACE)

Try replacing the

makeId("plane1")

with

id + "plane1"

Jake_Rosenfeld

I like to store this in a variable so that I don't have to rely on typing the same string correctly over and over:

const planeId = id + "plane";
opPlane(context, planeId, {...});

const sketchId = id + "sketch";
var sketch = newSketch(context, sketchId, { "sketchPlane" : qCreatedby(planeId, EntityType.FACE) });

Additionally, it might be useful to know that if you do not need this plane to actually show up in your part studio, or if you are just going to delete it later, you could use newSketchOnPlane directly instead of newSketch.  
https://cad.onshape.com/FsDoc/library.html#newSketchOnPlane-Context-Id-map

Then your code would just look like:

const sketchId = id + "sketch";
var sketch = newSketchOnPlane(context, sketchId, { "sketchPlane" : plane(vector(0, 0, 2) * inch, vector(0, 0, 1), vector(1, 0, 0)) });

matthew_mueller295

Changing it to id + "plane1" worked. And good to know about the newSketchOnPlane function. Thank you both!