I haven't had any success with copying and pasting sketches,
since they never seem to go where I want them to go, but I have
found a better way to work it out. If you have a plane parallel to
the original sketch plane, then open a new sketch on the plane
where you want the copy. Now, go over to the feature management
tree on the left and find the sketch that you want to copy. Select
it, and it will change color in your part window. Leave it selected
and go over to the command toolbar and pick "convert entities"
which is the little cube with one edge darkened. It will create a
copy of the original sketch on the new sketch plane. It will be
projected directly above the original position.
Here's what I did, probably wrong..
I drew an arc (180 degree) on a top plane, when I went to copy and paste it on a new plane above the top plane, when I paste it it's ass backwards. What did I do wrong? I'm extremely new to Solidworks so be gentle, when I was doing an eval I had this problem and couldn't figure out how to correct it. I just bought 2007 this evening and would like to know how to do it right when it comes. Any pointers greatly appreciated.
Brad
If modify sketch refuses to work, there is an old trick to mirror a sketch: right-click on the pasted sketch and use "edit sketch plane" to move the sketch to a plane that is roughly perpendicular to the original sketch plane, and roughly parallel to the imaginary mirror line. Do it again to put the sketch on the plane you actually wanted, and it should be flipped.
One thing I was doing to get my upper plane was hold down the ctrl key and with my mouse select the top plane and drag it upwards when it turned yellow to create a new plane. That new plane is where I was attemting to paste my sketch. I don't know if the way I was creating that plane was screwing something up or not?
SW Corp does not see it as one but clearly it is.
So,..... do they listen to the users???????
"convert, entities" for info. Also may want to look at "offset, entities".
This may be an alternate solution to do what you need.
Regards,
Anna Wood
SW06 SP4.1 x64, WinXP x64
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