- Layout sketches allow us to define multiple components
from one centralized layout sketch.
Now, the layout sketch lives in the assembly itself
and you can see right over here,
I already have a layout sketch created.
If you don't have the layout toolbar turned on,
click up here, here's my layout toolbar,
right click anywhere, come over here to tabs
and make sure you have layout turned on.
Inside of there, you have the layout sketch,
if you don't have anything created already,
now will be the time to create it.
But right now I do already have a layout sketch
and notice I've got a few different lines here,
defining the shape.
It doesn't matter if they're construction geometry
or regular geometry,
but just draw whatever your layout wants to be
on this layer.
When you're done drawing it,
you want to then exit out of that layout sketch
and notice it does show up right here.
And right over here, notice there's no sketches,
up here is the layout.
Notice this icon does change to a layout
and if you do need to edit the layout
of course you can come back up here
to layout again, to modify it.
Now, what I want to do is, I want to start bringing
in some components or some parts,
that I can start creating components from,
they will be referenced to that layout sketch.
Now, I happen to have another part open up here
and there's nothing in it,
it's a blank part, but that's okay,
I can bring in a blank part to another assembly.
So, I'm going to click over here under tile horizontally
and grab this part here and just bring that part in.
And once I've done that, go ahead and expand it back out,
and now you can see here's my part
and it's in there, it's great,
but you can't see it because there's nothing there, right?
It's a blank part, but we do want to still mate it together.
Now, whenever a new part gets dragged in,
it's the first part inside of an assembly,
it automatically becomes fixed and I want to float that.
So, if I right click on the part,
I can come down here to float,
now I can move it around, okay.
And inside of that part has an origin
and my assembly also has an origin, here it is.
So, I'm going to hold on control
choose the origin of both the part and the assembly
and I'm going to go ahead and mate them together.
So, I'm going to go over here to assembly, click on mate
and they slide together and there you have it.
Click okay, align the axes and there we go.
Once you've mated that together,
now everything is fully defined.
Now, it's time to start designing
and working with that part.
So, if I click on the part itself
I can come up here to edit part
and I want to choose a plane that is parallel
to the plane that my layout sketch is on.
And this one right here
the front plane is perfect for that.
So, go ahead and start a sketch, right there.
And I want to reference this geometry,
so a great way to reference geometry
is to use the convert entities tool.
Now, if I head over to sketch
I can go over here to convert entities
and just go ahead and click on that line,
that line and that line and click on okay.
Now, I've brought those lines into my current sketch
and now what I'd like to do is create a feature
and I'm going to extrude it out.
Because I've only selected a line,
it's going to automatically default to a thin feature.
And I'm going to go ahead and type in 0.25
make it a little bit thicker.
And then, I can establish how much
I'd like to expand this out or extrude this out.
I'm going to type in 10 inches.
So, there is my 10 inch extrude and there you have it.
Now, if I exit back out of this
now I'm back into that assembly
and I've created this part which is a hundred percent
referenced to that layout sketch.
Now a cool thing to do here would be to come over
and create a pattern.
So, I'm going to choose a pattern, a circular pattern
and the direction I want to spin around
is going to be that a axis there.
And the part that I'd like to pattern on the component
is this one right here, and let's go ahead
and make equal spacing and make four of those.
All right. So, now we have that one part
patterned around four places.
And now we can take a look at
the real power of the layout sketch.
So, because everything is referenced to that layout sketch,
if later on in your design, you decided, hey, you know
I prefer if this was a little bit bigger, well, guess what?
I can go over here to my layout sketch
or come over here to layout, click on layout.
And instead of 24 inches
let's make that 36, type in 36 click, okay,
the layout sketch updates.
And as you can see, as soon as we get out of that
the parts automatically adjust to the final size.
So, you can tie quite a bit of things
to that original layout sketch and you can drive one
or many parts all from the same layout sketch.
And by changing that one layout
all those parts will automatically adjust
just like you saw here on the screen.