I'm have a part that has a 2D sketch in it and I am looking for a way to turn it into a 3D sketch. I know the long ways of recreating the sketch and what not. What I really want is a button that I can click on that converts the 2D sketch into a 3D sketch in which I can redefine the segments in space. Does anyone else ever have this need?
Chris
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.
A Weldment does not have to consist of one 3D sketch. Elements from separate 2D and/or 3D sketches can be used to create weldment groups.
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.
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