Sketches

aubrey_cousin

Possibilities of adding the ability to measure or dimension drawings by the outside of a circle to another circle's outside perimeter like measuring slots but not by its center point?  Also is there a way to copy sketch entities with an anchor point to paste by that anchor point in a new sketch or another area of the current sketch? Can that be added?

lougallo

@aubrey_cousin You can measure to any of the points by hitting SHIFT Q to toggle mids and quad points.  You can also copy sketches from the tree or using the copy sketch entities within a sketch to copy a selection set of entities.  When you paste the sketch it will place you into the transform sketch entities dialog where you can move them anywhere you like.

lougallo

@aubrey_cousin You can measure to any of the points by hitting SHIFT Q to toggle mids and quad points.  You can also copy sketches from the tree or using the copy sketch entities within a sketch to copy a selection set of entities.  When you paste the sketch it will place you into the transform sketch entities dialog where you can move them anywhere you like.

william_lucke

When I paste sketch entities from one sketch into another, they don't show up in the same location relative to the origin. Any constraints that are referenced to the origin have to be re-created, which is the operation that copying and pasting is intended to avoid.
When I select the origin in order to use it as a reference point, the option to copy sketch entities goes away.
There's also no way to clear the clip board.

NeilCooke

@william_lucke when you paste a sketch you are automatically put into "Transform" mode (which can also be found under the sketch pattern icon). This allows you to snap your pasted entities to any geometry including the origin.

william_lucke

No, it doesn't allow that.
If I have constraints referenced to the origin, but do not have a sketch entity AT the origin, then those constraints referenced to the origin do NOT copy.

If I'm doing a layout with multiple entities referenced from the origin, then those constraints have to be rebuilt in order to fully constrain the geometry I copied.
Also, when I copy geometry with a mirror constraint mirrored across the origin, that constraint does not copy, even when there is a sketch entity at the origin.