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If you need to sketch a complicated shape for anything, look to see if you already have that shape in a different sketch. For instance:
- A complicated floor or ceiling sketch
- A profile
- A filled region
- A masking region.
- Simple linework - even from imported CAD
- A model element - see special below
Many sketches can be copied to clipboard and pasted into new sketches. As an example, you want to place a filled region over an entire plan. If the floor is sketched to the same limits, simply edit the floor sketch, window it, copy to clipboard and close the sketch. Now start your filled region and paste in.
Another advantage is the pasted sketch is scalable. Lets say you want to sweep a crown mold around a room but you don't have the right crown mold profile. You can open your crown mold profile family, copy the linework to clipboard and paste into your project then scale it.
On occasion, you might run into the "can not copy between project and family" error but not that often.
SPECIAL - For model shaped elements, you can export a view to CAD to make it all be linework then import and use that.
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