In this video, I will show you how to copy a sketch from one face
to another face of a 3D model. Let's create a sample model, select part design workbench and create new file and select create
sketch, select X-Y plane. And let's draw the hexagon, but first make
sure you have auto constraints turned on. Okay, now select Hexagon and
place the center of the Hexagon at the origin point and the second point
lies on the X-axis. Okay, right-click to cancel this command. Select constraint diameter. Select this circle and enter 200 millimeters as the diameter
of this circle. And click close to exit the sketch. Select pad feature and enter 50 millimetres as the length
of the extrusion. Now, select this face
and select create sketch. Create some geometry,
for example, circle and rectangle. Let's add dimensions. Okay. Adding dimensions is important because one way to copy a sketch will link the copy
of the sketch to the source sketch. Okay, click close to exit the sketch. And now, suppose the goal is
to copy this sketch onto this face. And the first way is
simply copy and paste. Select the sketch you want
to copy and press Ctrl+ C. Okay, in object selection window, select only
the sketch you want to copy and make sure this box is unchecked,
auto select depending objects. It should be unchecked. And click okay, and then press Ctrl+V. And here we have a new sketch and notice
that the sketch is outside of body. And in order to use this sketch to perform operations on this solid,
the sketch must be inside this body. And to do that, just drag
this sketch to body. Okay, the sketch is inside the body. And now we need to place this sketch
on this face. Select this sketch and for property
map mode, select these dots. First, click on this box and this button will
appear and click on this button and then click this button and pick
the face you want to copy the sketch to. Click OK to confirm and this is one way to
copy a sketch from one face to another. Okay, let's refresh the view and let's turn off the visibility
of this sketch for a moment. Select this sketch and press the spacebar. And now I will show you
the second way to copy sketch. Select this face and create a new sketch. Now to copy the source sketch, select create carbon copy and click
on the sketch you want to copy. But at this point this
sketch cannot be copied. But when you hover over this sketch, a message will appear in the lower left
corner to press Ctrl+Alt to allow a copy of a sketch that is
not parallel to this sketch. Press Ctrl+Alt and then left click
on the sketch you want to copy. And the sketch with the dimensions
was copied to this new sketch. Click close to exit sketch
and make this sketch visible. And we have three sketches here: one source and two copies that were
created in different ways. Now I will edit the source sketch
and change some dimensions. Okay, close the sketch and pay
attention to the rest of the sketches. The one that was created with
copy and paste has not changed. And the one
that was created with carbon copy has changed and looks the same
as the source sketch. Now, if you go to edit the second sketch
that was created with copy and paste, you can change the dimensions
of this sketch. For example. Change diameter of this circle. Okay. And if you go to edit the first sketch that was created with carbon copy,
you cannot edit the dimensions of that sketch because
they are linked to the source sketch and are dependent on the dimensions
of the source sketch. Okay, closed sketch. And those were two ways to copy
a sketch from one face to another. And in the same way, you can copy
sketches from one plane to another. Of course, you can use these
sketches for 3D solid operations. For example, pad, okay. Pocket here, okay. And another pad operation, okay. In this case, you can use one sketch to create several different 3D
solid features from a 2D sketch. And even if you use this sketch to perform
some operation, you can also copy it. In some cases, these methods
would save you some time. That's all for today. Thanks for watching and please
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