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Create A Sketch

The document provides instructions on how to create, edit, and delete sketches in Autodesk Inventor. It explains that sketches can be 2D or 3D and created in parts, assemblies, or drawings. Users can add geometry like lines, arcs, and dimensions to sketches. Sketches must be finished to exit the sketch environment. Sketches can then be edited or deleted from the browser. The document also lists additional sketching topics covered.

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Create A Sketch

The document provides instructions on how to create, edit, and delete sketches in Autodesk Inventor. It explains that sketches can be 2D or 3D and created in parts, assemblies, or drawings. Users can add geometry like lines, arcs, and dimensions to sketches. Sketches must be finished to exit the sketch environment. Sketches can then be edited or deleted from the browser. The document also lists additional sketching topics covered.

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Create a Sketch

What's New: 2018.1, 2018.2, 2020.1

• To create a sketch in a part or assembly file, do one of the following:

o On the 3D Model tab, click Start 2D Sketch or Start 3D Sketch .


o Right-click in the browser and choose New Sketch or New 3D Sketch.
o Click a planar face or work plane of a part and, in the mini toolbar, choose
Create Sketch .
• To create a sketch in a drawing file, click Place Views tab > Start Sketch .

Note: To enable or disable object snap in 3D Sketch, press the command in the status bar or
use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + P.

Edit a Sketch
1. Do any of the following:
o Double-click the sketch icon in the browser.
o Right-click the sketch in the browser and choose Edit Sketch or Edit 3D
Sketch.
o Right-click the sketch plane in the graphics area and choose Edit Sketch or
Edit 3D Sketch.
2. Use commands on the Sketch tab or 3D Sketch tab to add geometry and apply
constraints, dimensions, and features.
3. To reference other dimensions (parameters), select the feature to show the dimensions
used to create it and click the dimension value you want to reference. Or, during
sketching activity click another dimension to reference it.

Finish a Sketch
You must finish a sketch to exit the sketch environment.

• To end a 2D sketch, on the Sketch tab click Finish Sketch or right-click in the
graphics area and choose Finish 2D Sketch.

• To end a 3D sketch, on the 3D Sketch tab click Finish Sketch or right-click in the
graphics area and choose Finish 3D Sketch.

Delete a Sketch
• Select the sketch in the browser and press Delete or right-click it and choose Delete.

Note: If the sketch is part of a feature you can also delete the feature.
Topics in this section

• To Create and Edit 2D Sketch Blocks for Reuse


• To Create and Edit Sketch Patterns
• Degrees of Freedom Glyph Reference
Illustrates the degrees of freedom available to geometry.
• To Copy or Import AutoCAD Data into a Sketch
You can copy AutoCAD data to the Clipboard and paste it into an Inventor sketch, or
import AutoCAD files directly into an Inventor sketch.
• To Work with Sketches
You can switch between sketch and construction geometry, redefine a sketch to a
different plane, and in 2D sketches, you can measure region properties, slice, or add
text or images.
• To Edit Sketch Geometry
Resize or remove geometry or create geometry using precise input.
• To Work with Points
You can create center or sketch points, change point style, move or delete points,
import points from Microsoft Excel, and import points from a STEP or IGES File.
• To Create 2D Shape Geometry
Create circles, ellipses, rectangles, slots, polygons, fillets, and chamfers.
• To Draw 3D Curves
Draw a helical, silhouette, intersection curve, or a curve on a part face. Also generate
wire from an intersection curve in composite.
• To Create Lines, Arcs, and Bends
• To Create, Lock Spline Length, and Edit Splines
2D and 3D splines are curves of constantly changing radius. Inventor supports two
types of splines: interpolation splines and control vertex splines. Interpolation splines
can be created in both 2D and 3D sketches and on a surface.
• To Create and Edit Equation Curves
• Equation Curve Formula Reference
• To Draw 2D Geometry Using Dynamic Input
Inventor provides an optional heads-up display (HUD) that helps you keep your focus
in the sketching area when using the many of the 2D sketch geometry tools.
• To Work with Sketch Profiles
You can create a profile sketch, create a closed profile in the Line command, and
close an open profile (close loop).
• To Convert Sketch Text to Sketch Geometry
You can convert part, assembly, and drawing sketch text into sketch geometry and
use, for example, to etch or engrave a part numbers or stock information onto a
model.

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