How do you Project a Sketch Profile on to a Plane?

[SwUser2]

Dear Tek support,

If you Import a Solid Body, Round part with OD and ID features and you want to extract or create a sketched profile of the ID and OD sketch shaped profile,

What would be an easy way to do this.

I have tried the following ways, and these seem to take to long.

1. Draw a Rectangle then extrude cut through the part to expose the 1/4 of the face of the part. Then I could click on the Face and have the software extract the edges as a 2d Sketch entities.

2. Draw a split line and then project this on to the side of the part. Then I could click on all the edges I want one at a time. But this takes too long.

There should be a way to click on the Front Plane and have SW create a sketch automatically of all the Edges of the part that touch the Front Plane at the level the front plane passes through the Solid Part.

Remember that the Solid part is a solid body and there are no sketches and this solid body was imported.

Thanks

 

[kristinj]

Can you use an intersection curve? Generally speaking, you select two surfaces then Tools -> Sketch Tools -> Intersection curve and it will find the intersection of the two surfaces and create a curve. I believe it works with a surface and a plane too. It might take two features to get the inside and outside shapes you want.

Kristin Jugenheimer
Metis Design Corporation

http://www.metisdesign.com

 

[TheTick]

First....

We are helpful, but we are not tek support (except for SBaugh).

Second...

Some things to try:

1.) Use "Convert Entities" sketch tool to convert object silhouettes into sketch entities. Silhouettes are relative to the orientation of the sketch plane. I don't believe there is an automatic function for this, so each curve needs to be selected.

2.) Construct a plane that sections the solid body. Use "Intersection curves sketch tool to get section lines of faces. This works in both 2D and 3D sketches. With a sketch active, you can find this tool under "Tools --> Sketch Tools --> Intersection Curve".

Due to illness, the part of The Tick will be played by... The Tick.

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[SwUser2]

Thank you very much, I see how the intersection curve works.

However, when doing this you still have to pick each individual surface or edge that you want an intersecting curve created from.

We should be able to window select the whole solid body, then select the Intersecting curve tool, then select the Plane to put these curves on, and have SW automatically create the intersecting curve sketched entities from the inside of the part and the outside of the part, lay out on the selected plane and be created as a new sketch Feature.

Is there a way to do this? How about Sbaugh? Do you have any ideas on this?

Thanks