Duplicating Sketch Entities

You can use the Design Assistance for Sketch to quickly duplicate the selected sketch objects and entities to multiple locations that have similar surrounding characteristics.

Before you begin: Sketch your geometry. This procedure uses the following sketch.

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About Design Assistance for Sketch

Context: The Selection Helper Settings within the tool allow you to adjust the suggestions based on the sketch entity's characteristics.

  1. From an active sketch, click the sketch entities you want to duplicate and select the Design Assistance for Sketch from the context toolbar.
    The Selection Helper bar displays. The number of suggestions display in the color blue.

    In this example, the circle sketch entity is selected. The white dot is the handle, which can be dragged to other vertices where the Robot handle can be placed for alternative suggestions. The yellow entities are the suggested entities to add.



  2. Optional: Click Settings in the Design Assistance for Sketch to access the settings and adjust the suggestions based on your needs.

    Symmetry - Displays sketch entity suggestions at locations with symmetrical surrounding geometry.

    • Symmetry - on (default)



    • Symmetry - off



  3. Optional: Click Show Similar Drop Locations to display target locations in the sketch where placing the handle offers more suggestions.
  4. Optional: Drag the Design Assistance handle to targets in the sketch to display suggestions based on the relative positioning between the handle and the seed sketch entity.
    The handle is now on the rectangle. The new suggestions are based on the location of the circle in reference to the target.

  5. Optional: Click a yellow suggested sketch entity to remove that suggested entity.

    Any other suggested entities continue to display.

  6. Click in the Design Assistance context toolbar to accept the suggestions and close in the Design Assistance.
  7. Make any edits to the sketch and click Exit Sketch when finished.