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How to print to scale multiple sketches?

mark_williams
mark_williams Member Posts: 6 ✭
edited July 2018 in Community Support
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!

Answers

  • MBartlett21
    MBartlett21 Member, OS Professional, Developers Posts: 2,064 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @mark_williams
    Doesn't creating a drawing of the Part Studio, then showing sketches work?
    mb - draftsman - also FS author: View FeatureScripts
    IR for AS/NZS 1100
  • NeilCooke
    NeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 6,099 image
    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.
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA
  • mark_williams
    mark_williams Member Posts: 6 ✭
    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
    mark_williams Member Posts: 6 ✭
    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
    NeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 6,099 image
    @mark_williams if you think that's important you can vote on it here: https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/9784/sketching-in-drawings

    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA

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