- Editing Sketches
Edit Sketch opens an existing sketch so you can edit it.
- Edit Sketch Message PropertyManager
- Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Sketch Entities
You can cut and paste, or copy and paste, one or more sketch entities from one sketch to another or within the same sketch.
- Copying and Pasting Entire Sketches
You can copy an entire sketch and paste it on a face in the current part, or you can paste it into a different sketch, or into a part, assembly, or drawing document. The target document must be open.
- Check Sketch for Feature Usage
Check a sketch for errors that might prevent it from creating a feature.
- Sketching on Reference Planes Normal to Edges
You can sketch on a reference plane, created automatically, normal to an edge.
- Controlling the Visibility of Shaded Sketch Planes
When you are editing a sketch in Shaded With Edges or Shaded mode, you can display the sketch plane as a shaded plane.
- Derived Sketches
Derives a sketch from another sketch that belongs to the same part, or derives a sketch from another sketch in the same assembly.
- Selecting Silhouette Edges
You can select the silhouette edge of a rounded surface, such as a cylinder.
- Using Automatic Solve
You can specify whether SOLIDWORKS uses automatic computation to solve the sketch geometry of a part as you create it.
- Using Detach Segment on Drag
You can detach the end-points of a segment (line, arc, ellipse, or spline) from other entities it is attached to in a sketch, if dimensions or relations do not prevent dragging.
- Using Stick Fonts
You can use stick fonts when applying sketch text to parts or assemblies for laser engraving, water jet, and for Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machining.
- Numeric Sketch Input
You can specify numeric input as you create lines, rectangles, circles, and arcs.