- [Instructor] We can use the project curve tool
to take a sketch and then project it onto a surface.
Let me show you how it works.
Right over here, I've got two surfaces
and I want to create a sketch right in the center of that.
So I'm going to go ahead and start a sketch
and I'm in the Sketch mode now
and instead of drawing something out,
I actually want to bring in a block.
Now I know I haven't looked at blocks yet,
but it's pretty straightforward and easy to use blocks.
I just need to turn on the Block Toolbar.
So up here in the gray area,
I'm going to right click and I will come over
to Toolbars and come down here to Blocks.
And it shows up right over here
in the left part of the screen.
I'm going to grab that block and move it
over here so I can see it real easy
and then I'm going to actually
put it right over here.
I'm going to dock it right over here on the right.
Now what I want to do is I want to not make a block,
but insert a block and I'm going to browse for a block.
And right out here on my Desktop, I have exercise files.
I'm in chapter eight and it's going to be 8.16.
Inside of there, notice there's nothing shown
and that's because it's looking for a SolidWorks block.
You have to change this little drop down here.
So instead of a SolidWorks block,
we're looking for an AutoCAD file,
either a .dwg or .dxf file,
and this one happens to be the .dxf file
and there it is, click on that, click on Open.
And what that's going to do is going to bring that block
and attach it to my cursor.
So whenever I click, it's going to drop that block
and I'm going to drop it right there
in the center of that sketch.
You can hit Escape when you're done adding it,
but you can add multiple blocks if you wanted to.
And if you click on the block itself,
this operates on the entire block
so I can move it around, over here,
I can scale it, I can rotate it,
I can lock the angle.
I can do all kinds of magical things with a block
and especially when we have such a cool graphics
like this ninja star, it's got to be good.
Anyways, take this block and we're going to use that
to project our curve.
So let's exit out of the sketch.
So now I have this sketch,
under that sketch is that block
and that's what I'm going to project.
So grab that sketch, come over here to Features,
come all the way over here to Curves
inside Curve is Project Curve, click on that.
And we have two options.
We can choose to do a sketch on a sketch
or a sketch on a face
and already, I have that sketch selected.
Now, all I have to do is choose the face
I would like to project onto.
So notice right there.
We're able to project that sketch
right under this face over here.
We also have the option of going bidirectional
so I can choose this face as well
and now I can project that in both directions.
So pretty cool what you can do with this tool.
Click on Okay, and now I've got
that sketch actually on that face,
following all the curves of that face.
So there's a lot of neat things you can do with this tool.
Definitely very powerful.
So take a look and start playing with projected curve.