How to print to scale multiple sketches?

mark_williams

Hi all,

I have a single document with 6 sketches.
I wish to print these together at 1:1 scale.

It appears I cant add more than one sketch overlapping to a drawing, so that is out.

I can create an assembly of the sketches ok, but when inserting the assembly into a drawing i get a blank page.

So how can I do this?
Preferably without having to extrude anything.

Thankyou!

MBartlett21

@mark_williams
Doesn't creating a drawing of the Part Studio, then showing sketches work?

NeilCooke

If you extrude one of the sketch elements as a surface (normal to the viewing direction) then create a view using that surface, you can then right-click the view and select show/hide sketches.

mark_williams

mbartlett21 said:

@mark_williams
Doesn't creating a drawing of the Part Studio, then showing sketches work?

As i mentioned in my question, no it doesn't because you cannot align multiple sketches on a drawing accurately.
There is no way to overlay them and have them snap to each other.

mark_williams

NeilCooke said:

If you extrude one of the sketch elements as a surface (normal to the viewing direction) then create a view using that surface, you can then right-click the view and select show/hide sketches.

Well, that's a rather unobvious method of doing it, but it worked.

It seems this question (or similar) gets asked a lot.
Can't you guys just allow sketches to be printed with a bit more control?
We should really be able to print at scale, with dims, etc from the Parts Studio view without having to go through all this.

Thanks.

NeilCooke

@mark_williams if you think that's important you can vote on it here: https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/9784/sketching-in-drawings