- While it's not the same as creating a 3D sketch,
creating a rapid sketch or using the rapid sketch feature
can be very similar because it gives you
the ability to quickly make sketches
in different planes and surfaces in 3D space.
So I'm going to go up my sketch tool bar
and turn on rapid sketch.
I'm going to go over and select the align feature
and I'm going to just start drawing.
So I'm going to do down here and you see,
as I hover flat surfaces, their highlighted in gray,
this is the surface that I'm going to actually
start drawing my sketch on.
So as I click, it activates that surface
and I can draw some geometry on that.
When I'm done, I just hit Escape, go back up here
and pick another feature that I want to add,
but it doesn't automatically assume
that I want to use this face.
I can, if I want, but if I hover over another face,
it'll just start sketching on that face instead.
Different in 3D space, so it's kind of like a 3D sketch
in that way.
I can also go over, without even hitting Escape,
and just float over to another face
and make a circle over here, and make a circle up here.
So you can see how fast you can create geometry over
exiting geometry in 3D space with the rapid sketch feature.
When I'm all done, you just hit accept
and I've created various separate sketches all over
and they have their planes and reference geometry
that I had created in there, still available to be edited.
But I made a number of sketches very quickly,
faster than I could have if I did it the old fashioned way
or the traditional method by selecting a face,
starting to draw on it, going up, hitting sketch,
picking the face, grabbing my feature, drawing on it,
hitting accept, picking the face, hitting sketch,
and drawing.
That takes a lot of time.
With the rapid sketch feature, like it suggests,
I'm just rapidly sketching all over this thing
in every direction.
So it's very useful, very handy,
especially, if you have reference geometry already in there.
I always say, "Steal the geometry that you have."
Don't redo things.
Use planes, use surfaces.
There's no reason to draw a plane here
when you've already got this surface.
Use the rapid sketch and you can just start drawing
and dimension it off of everything that's in there already.
So this is a very powerful tool.
It can really speed up your sketching.
Again, not quite the same thing as 3D sketch,
but you can make 3D sketches quickly with it.