Sketcher to TechDraw

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Kirjaissa
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Sketcher to TechDraw

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Is it possible to use a sketch from Sketcher directly in TechDraw ?
I have a plan, certain distances are constrained (i.e easy to display is I want to make a screen capture or something), but I need to annotate other distances (solved distances and angles). This is for print for a quick project, a screenshot of sketcher would do it, but you can't add additional constraints (for display/ print only) as it would overconstrain the sketch.
So is it possible to send the Sketch directly to TechDraw for annotations ? I guess I could pad it and use the resulting 3d object, but in general, the sketch is not necessarily valid for padding in PD.
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Shalmeneser
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Re: Sketcher to TechDraw

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Yes. You select the sketch for your TechDraw.
It's a technic to draw some lines who don't belong to the object.
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Re: Sketcher to TechDraw

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Shalmeneser wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 5:25 pm Yes. You select the sketch for your TechDraw.
It's a technic to draw some lines who don't belong to the object.
So, it was not working earlier for some reason, but I can't replicate.
Now it's working as expected.
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Re: Sketcher to TechDraw

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Kirjaissa wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 4:37 pm Is it possible to use a sketch from Sketcher directly in TechDraw ?
Yes you can.
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Re: Sketcher to TechDraw

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You can use reference constraints too if you'd like to add something to a sketch without over constraining it.
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