How can I consolidate a sketch shape?

frits_garrer

Ik have a shape in my sketch which is made out of multiple splines and some lines. It is a whole, because I can make a boolean of it. But as soon as I want to place it an exact distance from something else, with the dimension tool, the shape doesn't hold its shape, the splines are left on the original location and the lines are moved to the new location. How can I consolidate this shape to be this and nothing else?

billy2

translate your sketch. I think it's under the sketch pattern drop down.

EvanReese

I think you're looking for something like a "Sketch Group" or "Sketch Block" which doesn't exist yet in Onshape (I know I'd use it often if it did). @billy2
is right that the transform tool can help you move everything all together, but it won't help you get an exact dimension to something else. For that, you'd need to fully constrain the spline and lines with dimensions and constraints. It sounds like they do form a closed shape, but might not actually be attached (constrained) together since the lines move and the splines don't. If it's a doc you can share, I'm happy to take a look.

frits_garrer

Thank you for your answer.
It's about the last sketch in line. I've done a lot of restrains to it. I've managed to make it work for the X axis (currently 100mm from to other object), but the Y axis is still a mess (currently 73.9mm from the other object). Besides placing even more (and making it slower to calculate) dimensions to restrain it, I wouldn't know what to do. Consolidating sketches, objects, parts is a real miss if you ask me. It should be in line with versioning of documents and really plays a big part in an Agile / Scrum workflow I think.

EvanReese

I agree that it would be great to have a way to group sketch items together somehow. If you're looking for a way to move the entire sketch around without defining all of it, you could also create the sketch on a mate connector, then move the mate connector around, which will move the sketch entities.

matthew_stacy

@frits_garrer, alternatively consider applying geometric and/or dimensional constraints to the entities in question.  Think of the constraints as the language to express your design intent.