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copy and paste of sketch parts

jason_martindalejason_martindale Member Posts: 6 EDU
in Onshape Mobile
Noobey noob here: anyone know of a way of simply copying and pasting sketch entities in the app?  I can copy a sketch, and add it into a sketch, and then delete the parts that I don't need, but is there a simpler way?  Thank you for reading!

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  • robert_scott_jr_robert_scott_jr_ Member Posts: 526 ✭✭✭
    One notch above noobey here. Left click on an entity then shift left click on sketch entities until satisfied. Right click to bring up menu. Select Copy sketch entities. Go to the sketch you want to paste entities into and right click to bring up the menu and opt to Paste sketch entities.

    You can also group select entities by placing your cursor to the upper or lower left of the intended group, left click and drag the selection rectangle from left to right and then right click to bring up the menu as before. Dragging from left to right will include any entities that are completely enclosed by the selection rectangle. Dragging from right to left will include any sketch entities that are within the selection rectangle as well as any entities that are partially enclosed within the rectangle.

    When the entities are pasted into the sketch you can manipulate the accompanying triad. Grab the circle/dot of the triad to move the triad to any place of the newly pasted entities.The circle/dot will snap to entities if desired. Use the square to move the pasted entities to any place of the already existing sketch entities. The circle/dot will snap to entities of the already existing sketch entities if desired.

    -Scotty

  • NeilCookeNeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,775
    robert_scott_jr_ said:
    ...then shift left click on sketch entities until satisfied...

    No need to hold shift...
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA
  • peter_wallispeter_wallis Member Posts: 4 ✭
    new noobey. - I guess "the accompanying triad" is that dot/arrow thing I have seen on occasion?  It doesn't appear when I paste and nothing seems to budge the pasted sketch entities. Any idea what I might be doing wrong? Also it seems to make another sketch(!) but conceptually I pasted sketch entities. Is that what is meant to happen?
  • eric_pestyeric_pesty Member Posts: 2,005 PRO
    peter_wallis said:
    new noobey. - I guess "the accompanying triad" is that dot/arrow thing I have seen on occasion?  It doesn't appear when I paste and nothing seems to budge the pasted sketch entities. Any idea what I might be doing wrong? Also it seems to make another sketch(!) but conceptually I pasted sketch entities. Is that what is meant to happen?
    If you just paste without being already in a sketch it will create a new sketch.

    Edit the sketch you want to copy from and make sure you are editing the sketch you want to paste the entities in
  • jean_marc_billaudjean_marc_billaud Member Posts: 11 ✭

    Hello,

    I would like to continue this thread.

    I want to copy/paste a sketch with a mirror effect.

    Let us consider I hace a dice with five unevenly positioned holes on one side. I want the same holes on the opposite side, aligned with the initial ones.

    If I just copy the sketch which defines the hole positions on the initial face, and paste it to the opposite face, the sketch will appear on the new face exactly as it is on the initial face, which means that the holes will not be aligned with the initial ones.

    If I can mirror the sketch while pasting it, or after pasting it, I can have the holes aligned.

    I hope I am clear.

    How can I do that ?

  • eric_pestyeric_pesty Member Posts: 2,005 PRO
    edited January 28
    https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/112984#Comment_112984

    My answer would be to manipulate features instead of using a different sketch for something like this…

    For example you could do a 180deg circular pattern around the center of the part and that should give you what you want.

    EDIT: the 180deg pattern would work with the sketch as well…

    Another option would be to create new bodies (parts) instead of doing a remove with the feature creating the cuts on the first face, then you can do a transform by mate connector to manipulate these exactly the way you want. Add a boolean at the end to remove all of these from the faces.

  • MDesignMDesign Member Posts: 474 ✭✭✭
    https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/112984#Comment_112984

    To do it in sketch… after you paste the entities in. you can simply mirror them with the sketch mirror tool.

  • rick_randallrick_randall Member Posts: 373 ✭✭✭

    @jean_marc_billaud - In your example, the dice face could be transferred to the opposite side by creating a sketch on that face, then using the "use" command to bring in the dot geometry from the 1st face - no mirrors at all. Just a 2nd option for you.

  • jean_marc_billaudjean_marc_billaud Member Posts: 11 ✭

    Thanks you, I will have to investigate those tips.

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