Sketcher ToggleConstruction

Sketcher AlterConstruction
Menu location
Sketch → Sketcher geometries → Toggle construction line
Workbenches
Sketcher, PartDesign
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
-
See also
None

Description

This tool toggles sketch geometry from/to construction mode. It can be used on any type of geometry: line, arc or circle.

Construction geometry is an important tool of the sketcher. When using a sketch for a 3D operation, construction geometry is ignored.

In sketch edit mode, construction geometry is shown as blue, and won't turn green when a sketch is fully constrained. Once you exit the sketch mode, construction geometry is hidden on the screen.

Note: starting with v0.13, construction lines can be used as rotation axis by the PartDesign Revolution feature.

Usage

• Select one or more sketch geometry in the 3D view, then click on the tool or access it in the menu.

Example

• 

  Use Construction mode change your sketches, and

• once your finished sketch, sketch and leaving the forms used in construction mode, have become invisible to the screen (but are still present in the Sketcher)

  once your finished sketch, sketch and leaving the forms used in construction mode, have become invisible to the screen (but are still present in the Sketcher)