Quick Start

Once a Sketch command is selected, you are prompted to define a Sketch
Plane on page 138. At this point, you can pick any work plane or planar face
to sketch on. Once the Sketch Plane is defined, you see the Sketch Grid on
page 138 by default.
The Sketch Plane
The Sketch Plane is a plane on which you can draw Sketch entities. A Sketch
Plane is always created as a child of the currently active component. A
component can have many Sketch Planes, but only one Sketch Plane in a
document can be active at a time.
A Sketch plane can be defined using a planar face, a Workplane, or an existing
Sketch Profile on page 171. When a Sketch Plane is created, a node is added to
the browser:
You can click the light bulb icon to make the Sketch entities on the plane
invisible/visible. You can double-click the pencil icon to activate that Sketch
Plane, so you can add/remove its Sketch entities. If you activate a Sketch, any
Sketch that is already active is deactivated.
The Sketch Grid
When a Sketch Plane on page 138is activated, a Sketch Grid is drawn that
encompasses all the Sketch entities on the plane. The camera is updated
automatically to look at the Sketch Plane. If there are no entities on the plane,
the Grid assumes a default size.
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