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Stanubi
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convert sketch to draft doesn't work

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Hi,
I am using version 0.19, revision 24366, and I am encountering a weird behaviour when I try to convert some sketches to draft objects in the Draft WB.
I have done this before several times and it worked perfectly.

The 3 sketches are well defined, full constrained and are dependend on each other (A->B->C). Since I suspected the sketches to be faulty, I have even tried to extrude them in Part WB and that gave a perfect result. Also the spatial references are perfect when I extrude a combination of sketches.

However, now when I try to convert the sketches into draft objects using the "bidirectional conversion" feature (I only need the direction skect2draft), the conversion doesn't work. It either creates an uncomplete (but still closely related) output on the less complicated sketch. On the more complicated sketch it creates complete garbage. Is there a bug in the conversion feature, do I have the wrong preferences, or what can be going on there?

Anyone can give a hint?

regards
Stan
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Roy_043
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Re: convert sketch to draft doesn't work

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Post a sample file.
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Re: convert sketch to draft doesn't work

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Stanubi wrote: Sun Dec 04, 2022 8:59 pm Anyone can give a hint?
You should retry with a current 0.20 or 0.21; the latter being compulsory if it goes wrong with 0.20.

And may I ask what you intend to do? Most tools work well with sketches.
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Re: convert sketch to draft doesn't work

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There is also something else you can do: make a downgrade+upgrade of the sketch.
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Re: convert sketch to draft doesn't work

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chrisb wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 12:25 am You should retry with a current 0.20 or 0.21; the latter being compulsory if it goes wrong with 0.20.
It works perfectly fine in 0.20.

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Re: convert sketch to draft doesn't work

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Again: Post a sample file.
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