GuiCommand: Name: Sketcher NewSketch MenuLocation: Sketch , Create sketch Workbenches: Sketcher_Workbench SeeAlso: PartDesign_NewSketch, Sketcher_MapSketch, Sketcher_ReorientSketch
Sketcher NewSketch
Description
The 
Sketcher NewSketch tool creates a new sketch and opens the Sketcher Dialog to edit it.
Note that the 
PartDesign Workbench has its own new sketch tool. When working on a PartDesign Body that tool should be used instead.
Usage
- If the sketch should be attached to existing geometry: select an object with a shape, or one or more vertices, edges, and/or faces, and/or a plane.
- There are several ways to invoke the tool:
- Press the Create sketch button.
- Select the Sketch → Create sketch option from the menu.
- Press the
- If geometry has been selected:
- The Sketch attachment dialog opens.
- Select an attachment method from the dropdown list. Or select Don\'t attach to ignore the selection.
- Press the OK button.
- If there is no selection, or Don\'t attach has been selected in the previous step:
- The Choose orientation dialog opens.
- Specify the plane for the orientation. The plane is relative to the local coordinate system the sketch is in:
- If the Reverse direction checkbox is not checked:
- Top: XY-Plane
- Front: XZ-Plane
- Right: YZ-Plane
- If the Reverse direction checkbox is checked:
- Bottom: XY-Plane
- Rear: XZ-Plane
- Left: YZ-Plane
- If the Reverse direction checkbox is not checked:
- Optionally change the Offset. The offset is measured along the Z, Y or X axis of the local coordinate system.
- Press the OK button.
- A sketch is created.
- The sketch is put in edit mode and the Sketcher Dialog opens.
- To finish edit mode see
Sketcher LeaveSketch.
Notes
- Existing sketches can be attached to (different) object(s) with Sketcher MapSketch or detached and reoriented with Sketcher ReorientSketch.
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