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View Sketches

Control the visibility of sketches.

  • Click one of the following:
    • Hide/Show Items Tool_Hide_Show_Items_Headsup_View.gif > View Sketches menu_View_Sketches.gif
    • View Sketches Tool_ViewSketches_View.png (View toolbar)
    • View > Sketches

In drawing documents, View > Sketches affects sketches that exist in the FeatureManager design tree only. For example, if you create a sketch on a model, and the sketch exists in the FeatureManager design tree, you can hide or show the sketch in a drawing. If you create a sketch in a drawing, View > Sketches does not affect the sketch’s visibility. Also, if a sketch is hidden in the model's FeatureManager design tree, View > Sketches does not affect the sketch's visibility in a drawing.

This drawing has two sketches:
  • Five blue circles created in the part that exist in the FeatureManager design tree
  • Three orange slots created in the drawing that do not exist in the FeatureManager design tree
view_sketches_selected.gif view_sketches_cleared.gif
View > Sketches selected View > Sketches cleared


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