Adding Geometry for Part / Assembly

The Add Geometry tool    enables you to copy an entity from another plane or another sketch onto the current sketching plane.

Note: Using Add Geometry, the selected entities will be included as geometry in the sketch. If you want to add entities that will act only as a reference, and will not be included in the sketch, see Adding Reference Entities.

The following instructions provide a brief overview of how you may copy a geometric entity from another plane and add it into the Sketcher plane:

1. First, select a plane. The selected plane is highlighted.

2. Activate the Sketcher.

3. Click the Add Geometry     tool. A button is displayed in your graphical display area which toggles between Intersect and Project.

• Intersect: The common geometry between the Sketcher plane and the picked geometry is displayed.

or

• Toggle to Project: The copied geometry is projected on to the Sketcher plane.

5. You can use the Undo function to cancel your selection.

6. To finish the operation click another tool, or click the Add Geometry button to deselect it.

Note: When adding Splines, the newly-created Spline is treated a "control points" Spline. This enables increased accuracy.