Usability in Shetch

[RobbieKnobbie]

Thanks for adding the Align Faces and Hollow changes yesterday, both improvements look great. THANKS!

Ok, visiting the sketch function, I've been having some troubles with a couple things...

1. when establishing a new plane on the top surface of an object, say a rectangular prism. The New Plane cursor (and origin) snaps to the snaps grid, but is it possible to hold down Shift, or Ctrl or something to have it snap to object corners or edges instead?
2. sometimes the new plane's grid is at an angle to the base grid or underlying geometry. How is this angle controlled, and can it default to parallel, and then require a second click to set an angle, similar to the angle selectors that appear when spinning a solid on the original workplane?
3. Is it possible to get edges from objects on another workplabe to project as a line onto a new workplane? Perhaps as a phantom line that wouldn't try to count as part of the extruded sketch, but allow us to reference those features in a current sketch? This can be really difficult to work around when the new sketch plane doesn't line up exactly with the preceding plane or feature.

let me know if any of this doesn't make sense, and THANK YOU

[henmedia]

@RobbieKnobbie, all three are in 1.51.0:

1. Corners and edges: no modifier needed. When placing a workplane, click close to a corner of the face and the origin sits exactly on it; close to an edge and it lies on the edge (in grid steps along it).
2. The angle came from whichever triangle of the face you clicked. On a lying face the grid now runs parallel to the body by default. To choose another angle, click on an edge: the grid then lines up with that edge.
3. The sketch view already showed other bodies as a faint outline (or the cut, where the workplane goes through a body). Points you set or drag now snap to the corners of those outlines, marked with a small ring, so you can pick up features of other bodies without them becoming part of the sketch.

Workplane · Sketches