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Make Sketch from Assembly Section View

Make Sketch from Assembly Section View

Make Sketch from Assembly Section View

(OP)
In an assembly I created a section view. I then created a sketch from the section view plane. Now I can select the profile geometry of the section but SW wont let me convert the geometry to the sketch?? Is there a way to do this? Or maybe there is a better way.

tom...

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

RE: Make Sketch from Assembly Section View

I assume this is for a sort-of temporary thing.  You can force the section with a cut feature in the assembly and then use those actual model edges rather than the ones generated by the section view.

RE: Make Sketch from Assembly Section View

Use the Intersection Curve tool.

cheers
Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
How to find answers ... FAQ559-1091

RE: Make Sketch from Assembly Section View

(OP)
Thanks handleman, This would be a good work around.

CBL, I like the sound of this, but I can't make it work yet. I'm in an assenmbly model. I have a section view from the front plane of my assembly. I select the front plane and then select the intersection curve tool. It creates a sketch, but there is nothing on the sketch. I started over and then I selected the cut view geometry and the plane and then the intersection curve tool and I get an error saying "No Legal combinations or selected entities were found."
Can you straighten me out...

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

RE: Make Sketch from Assembly Section View

(OP)
CBL, I just figured it out, I dont use the cut view for this I just use a plane and the model. It worked fine.
Thanks for your help

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

RE: Make Sketch from Assembly Section View

1) Place a plane where you need your geometry taken from.
2) Open a new 2D sketch on the plane.
3) Activate the Intersection Curve tool.
4) Select the parts (from the Manager tree).

NOTES:
Clicking on individual faces will create geometry for that face only.

As you select each part, it's outline should be added to the sketch.

If the part is made of multiple bodies, you have to expand the tree & select each body indivdually.

cheers
Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
How to find answers ... FAQ559-1091

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