Transferring Geometry

[bikerbub]

I'll start this off by saying that I am totally new to
Pro Engineer, being a Freshman in an engineering program.
I have some (limited) experience with Autodesk Inventor,
and luckily, some of that knowledge has converted well to
working with Pro E. However, there is one element of
Inventor that I miss, however I'm pretty sure it's
something I've just missed.

When creating a new sketch on a surface that has already
been extruded, Autodesk gave you the ability to add
existing geometry from the 3-d figure to your current
sketch. This included mostly object lines and center-
points of circles, but was still really helpful for
aligning things.

I'm wondering where, if anywhere, this feature is in Pro
Engineer, or what an alternative would be, that preforms
a similar function.

I guess I should also mention that my school uses Pro
Engineer with Wildfire, version 4.0.

Thanks,
Josh

 

[dr_gallup]

Use Sketch/references for construction geometry or Sketch/use/edge or sketch/use offset to add sketch entities that reference existing geometry. There are also icons on the sketcher toolbar for these commands.