Repeatable sketches.

Hi,
I've been told that this is one of the best Solidworks resources about
so I hope that perhaps someone here could help me.

For a lot of the work I'm doing with Solidworks there are a range of
common sketch details (eg common detail A, B and C) I use when
detailing parts. Currently I either draw each one or if doing a batch
of similar details copy and paste within the sketches I'm working on
but I can only have one of the details in the clipboard at a time. Is
there away to effectively create a multiple capacity clipboard or
sketch library so I can go through and paste detail-A, B or C when
needed rather than having to do each individually?

Thanks for your time.

-Andrew

 

Try Blocks, also Feature Library might be handy.

 

Thanks I'll give that a go and see whether block will do what I want.
I think I (unsuccessfully) tried the feature library the last time
this annoyed me enough to do something about it.

-Andrew

 

Hello Andrew,

You may want to create a part file which contains nothing but
sketches.

Such a part file could become your 'library' reference from which you
could cut and paste either portions of a sketch or in its entirety.

To copy portions, the sketch just needs to be opened for editing and
the desired entities selected. An entire sketch can be copied by
selection from the Feature Manager listing.

Your 'library' sketch part file(s) can be named to have some implied
association with the components supported and those collections of
sketches can easily be added to, modified and/or consolidated...

Per O. Hoel
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