Sketches

Good Afternoon

Is there any way to save just sketches, like you can save features in
the design library. There are some sketches that I use for both
extrudes and sweeps and I would like to be able to save just the
sketch.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Chris

 

You can create just a sketch in a part file and save the file. When
you need the sketch you open the file, select everything and do a copy.
You can then paste the sketch into your new part for use. You could
also make you sketc in a drawing file and create a block. It really
depends on what you want to use this sketch for.

SW 2006 will allow you to make sketch blocks that can be saved and
re-used in files (like a library feature only it's just the sketch). I
think this is exactly what you are looking for.

 

wrote in @g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

You can put a sketch on the feature pallette (design library) just like
putting features there.

Pesky ndas...

 

I don't think the NDAS applies since that has been printed all over the
web and was shown to the public at SolidWorks World.

 

Did you consider using a macro to record drawing the sketch? Then every time
you need to draw that particular group of lines/arcs/splines you can just
run the macro. You can even assign it to a hotkey...

If you are good with VBA programming you can even streamline it with
positioning inputs etc...

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