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Move a sketch to a new plane
maxwell_bottiger
Member Posts: 5 ✭
I have a design where my sketch is on the wrong face of the extruded solid. Because it's on the wrong side, the holes are going the wrong way. It seems like the thing to do is to create a plane on the face where I want my sketch, then move the sketch to that plane, then recreate my screw holes.
However, when I go to change planes in my sketch, it only gives me the standard top/front/right choices. Am I going about this incorrectly? I'm sorry if this is a naive question, I'm still working through tutorials and this is just the third part I've ever made with OnShape.
Here's the project: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/dee058838d2f5c54ba37682b/w/d29dcb4a47396640bd264dad/e/82cf8724937b6f065c6e6d1a
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ry_gb
Member, csevp, pcbaevp Posts: 210 PRO
If your intended face is planar, you can select that face directly instead of using a plane.
I only looked at it briefly and am answering on mobile, but is your sketch above/before the new plane in the feature tree? If so, you need to reorder the existing features (just drag them), to be able to select the plane you made.
Lastly, you can use Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V to copy and paste sketch geometry from one sketch to another.
Ramon Yip | glassboard.com
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If your intended face is planar, you can select that face directly instead of using a plane.
I only looked at it briefly and am answering on mobile, but is your sketch above/before the new plane in the feature tree? If so, you need to reorder the existing features (just drag them), to be able to select the plane you made.
Lastly, you can use Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V to copy and paste sketch geometry from one sketch to another.
Ramon Yip | glassboard.com
You can use a mate connector instead of a plane, this gives you full control of the orientation. Several examples of that in here starting around 1:40:
Sir, you know better than to start recommending mate connectors around here.
But actually, that's a pretty smart move. Idk why I hadn't thought about using them to control vertical/horizontal or even flipping normals. That's genius.
Ramon Yip | glassboard.com
@ry_gb LoL!
Cutting and pasting the sketch to a different plane worked well.