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Problem with USE tool

Steve_Bundick
Steve_Bundick Member Posts: 3 ✭
edited January 2017 in Community Support
I'm unable to select any entities from sketches other than the one I am editing. I think I should be able to select entities from other sketches and utilize the USE tool to use in new sketch.  Thanks.

Answers

  • raj_Onshape
    raj_Onshape Onshape Employees Posts: 113 image
    Do you have a specific example ?  One should be able to use both model edges and sketch entities from other sketches.
  • Steve_Bundick
    Steve_Bundick Member Posts: 3 ✭
    I have a document called UP_Wheel.For example, there is a Sketch Front.  I'm trying to use points/lines from Sketch SpokeInward or SpokeOutward where they intersect with Sketch Front.  But I can't highlight anything from the other sketches when editing Sketch Front.  The document is public.
  • raj_Onshape
    raj_Onshape Onshape Employees Posts: 113 image
    I think the problem is not that you cannot use edge from a sketch but you cannot use edge from any feature that is created afterwards in history.

    If you move you sketch Front after "SpokeInward" in the feature list you can achieve this.
  • Steve_Bundick
    Steve_Bundick Member Posts: 3 ✭
    Ahhh....thank you very much!  That was it.
  • jess_robinson995
    jess_robinson995 Member Posts: 17 ✭✭
    ptrajkumar said:
    I think the problem is not that you cannot use edge from a sketch but you cannot use edge from any feature that is created afterwards in history.

    If you move you sketch Front after "SpokeInward" in the feature list you can achieve this.
    I came here wondering the same thing.. is there any reason *why* you cant use features in future sketches to edit against?

  • lana
    lana Onshape Employees Posts: 779 image
    @jess_robinson995
    This is how parametric modeling works. The geometry is a result of replay of the instructions recorded in feature tree. The dependencies in these instructions can only flow one way.

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