Convert 2D Sketch to 3D Sketch

Chris,

No sure if this will work (your idea...). but then again, I may be unclear on what you want as a final result.

Convert entities will convert a 2d sketch into a 3d sketch.

Since it begins as a 2d sketch, the converted entities will be on the same plane and on edge to the 2-d sketch.

regards,

Alan

I think there is no way to turn a 2D sketch into 3D sketch by just hitting a button. The convert entities only make a 3D sketch of your 2D. The original 2D remains. If your need is to create a 3D sketch in a plane or planar surface, it is possible. Just use the 3D sketch tool, select a plane/planar surface to place the 3D sketch and your sketches will be on that plane/planar surface. Hope I make sense.

Perhaps an image of the original 2D sketch and edited 3D sketch would explain what you are trying to achieve.

What exactly is your requirement to convert a 2d sketch into 3d. I'm sure you should able able to use the 2d sketch for the same purpose as you need a 3d sketch (in this particular scenario)

I also wish a feature like this existed.  I believe a simple example would be if you are making a table using weldments and you originally started by making only the table top in a 2D sketch, then later you realized you also wanted to make the legs in the same sketch--requiring the conversion from 2D to 3D.

I would also like this feature. I've run into this situation several times - usually its something like a set of holes on one face, then as the design progresses I decide I want the holes on another face also.

Doesn't SW spend a lot of its advertising budget saying how well the software can go from 2D to 3D?

This feature would be handy to have a few times a week, more often when revisiting previous project and need adding cranks and fillet corners in pipework. Too may times a week I convert 2D entities in a 3D sketch dimension don't change but the weldments are lost when 2D sketch is deleted. I would of though by now that the 2D sketching is the XY plain of a 3D sketch. SW needs to work on ONE mode of sketching. Maybe keep 2D sketch icon as default to 3D sketching on XY plain.