Aligning Sketches

paul_shilham

Hi, I have done a lot of research on this, found many different answers and can't help but think i'm missing something blindingly obvious.

I want to duplicate a sketch so that I can loft between them and alter the second sketch as needed. However, when I copy and paste or 'use' the first sketch , the resulting sketch does not align with the first. Which is fine. But, I can't find work out a simple way to align the 2 sketches, which seems such a blindingly simple operation, yet when I use the following, I run into issues:

1. Highlight all and move manually - it doesn't highlight the centre points of curves, and so when I move the sketch, it gets skewed etc.
2. If I use transform, then it doesn't allow me to snap to anything on the original sketch.
3. I can't make it coincident, since I am presented with an error along the lines of "Cannot make more than 2 line types coincident".

I'm sure i'm missing something obvious, but am going around in loops & slightly mad.

S1mon

Transform will snap. The key is moving the reference point of the transform manipulator to something that makes sense for your needs.

Here I copied the entities from a sketch (Cmd-C), and then on another sketch plane, added a point, made it coincident with the first sketch, and then pasted in the copied sketch. I moved the sketch until it snapped to the added point.

If the default insertion/manipulation point is not the reference you want, you can drag the manipulator by the circle until it snaps to the point you want.