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Projecting Geometry

marchlikjm

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I have just moved over to solidworks from using Inventor for 5 years. I wish to edit a part in an assembly by transfering the hole pattern in one component to another. In an Inventor assembly I would simply edit the desired part, start a sketch on a surface, hit the project geometry button, and click on the face or feature on another part that was on a parallel plane. The outline of the face or feature would then appear on the new sketch. What is the command named in Solidworks that projects geometry to a sketch?
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I hope I haven't mixed SW up with ProE here but the command you're looking for I think is 'convert entities'. In the sketch, you'd pick a hole egde for example, then click on the convert entities button and it will project a sketch of that hole onto the surface you are skecthing on.


It should be in the sketch tools toolbar.
 
In Solidworks you can only project a curve from a sketch. ing out Solidworks for the first time. Many common surfacing techniques that have been created over the past 20 years are not possible with just being able to project a curve from a sketch but thats another topic.

I don't have SW installed anyplace but I think the command is 'project curve' and if you turn on your interface options for surface icons and hover over each icon you will locate the tool.
Edited by: design-engine
 

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