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Correct way to project a derived shape onto a sketch?

stephen_sherwood846stephen_sherwood846 Member Posts: 20
I needed to design a part in a Part Studo (the yellow part shown in the image) which represents a bought component. I wish to accuratly produce a cutout for this part in another part studio. I created a test part studio shown in the image and placed the yellow compent in as Derived.

I tried creating a sketch on the target part but could not see the derived drawing, so I created an offset plane inbetween and created on sketch on this. I had hoped I could simply select the boundary and right click and "use" to project the selected lines on the sketch but that option was not available. In the end I had to redraw the derived part onto the sketch on the plane (it did let me use constraints against the derived object) and then create a second sketch on the target plane where I could then "use" lines selected from the sketch on the plane. From the I could extrude the cutout,

Is there an easier way of doing this sort of thing?

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