Approaches to 3D Sketching

There are two approaches to 3D sketching.

  • 2D Sketching with 3D Sketch Planes. Activate a planar face by adding a 3D sketch plane, sketch in 2D along the plane, and add 3D sketch planes each time you need to move sketch entities to create a 3D sketch. This tutorial uses this approach.
  • 3D Sketching. Open a 3D sketch, and press Tab each time you need to move sketch entities to a different axis. The sketch origin is placed wherever you first start the sketch.

2D sketches with 3D sketch planes allows you to:

  • Define planes
  • Add relations:
    • To planes
    • Between planes
    • Between sketch entities on different planes
  • Move and resize planes