In this lesson you will learn how to project a sketch. 1
Create a sketch and you will find Project, 2
Keyboard Shortcut P, in the create dropdown menu. 3
In the Contextual Sketch environment. 4
Project will bring geometry 5
from other parts of your project onto your sketch plane. 6
You can reference faces, edges, points, or bodies. 7
Let's make a projection on this construction 8
plane with specified entities as our selection filter. 9
The highlighted line shows geometry that will be projected 10
onto your construction plane. 11
Delete your projected lines and project again, 12
but with bodies as your selection filter, We can't select a sketch this time, 13
but just hovering over any part of the body is enough to project 14
the boundaries from the top surface onto our active construction plane. 15
The specified entities selection filter has a broader application 16
than the bodies selection filter, since you can pick specific parts. 17
You can project 18
with or without a projection link. 19
You create a relationship between your original sketch 20
and your projection when you project with a link, 21
those projections are purple. 22
Change the original sketch and your projection 23
automatically updates. 24
Make sure that you uncheck 25
projection link if you want to project an independent sketch that doesn't update 26
when you make changes to the underlying sketch used for the projection. 27
Unlinked projections are blue. 28
You will probably run 29
into a few scenarios when you create a projection link, but realize later 30
that your projection link doesn't support your design intention. 31
You don't want automatic updates on your projected 32
sketch. Your linked projection is purple. 33
Select your sketch, right click and edit 34
and right click again on your selection and select Break Link. 35
As you've seen, 36
Project is both a timesaver and quality driver. 37
You can reuse and create accurate sketch geometry, 38
and you can also save a lot of time when you make changes to your design. 39
Good job following along. 40
See you in the next lesson. Thank you.