| Step 1. |
Define the profile plane. How to: Define the Profile Plane Show me: Examples: Defining Reference Plane Orientation Note: When you define a profile plane, a profile view is displayed and drawing commands are displayed. |
| Step 2. |
Use the available drawing commands to draw a profile. You are not limited to the profile view for drawing the profileyou can draw the profile in any window. |
| Step 3. |
If you are constructing a revolved feature or helical feature, define the rotation axis. |
| Step 4. |
Click the Return button on the command bar to validate the profile and continue constructing the feature. |
If the profile is invalid for constructing the current feature, the Profile Error Assistant dialog box is displayed. This dialog box displays a list of descriptions for the profile errors and allows you make corrections to the invalid profile element(s) without exiting the profile environment and losing the profile geometry.
If the feature can be saved as a failed feature or can be converted to a sketch, the Save the Profile Geometry in a Failed Feature and Save the Profile Geometry as a Sketch options are available. With features involving multiple profiles on separate planes, such as sweep, lofts and helical features, or with features involving a base feature, the feature cannot be saved as a failed feature. In these cases, you can only save the profile geometry as a sketch.
You can use the Save or Save All command to save a profile while you are creating a new feature or editing an existing feature.
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You can also paste a profile into the profile window from the Clipboard. This feature allows you to use profiles you have drawn previously as sketches, or as profiles for other features, without maintaining associativity between the current feature and a previous feature or sketch. You can also paste in a profile drawn in another application.
You can use the Include command to make associative copies of part edges on the profile plane. You can then trim or extend the copied geometry to complete the profile.
You can draw construction elements that are not part of the profiledraw the element, then change it to a construction element with the Construction command.