Just how do you chain curves in Sketch mode?

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July 15, 2014
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Up to this point I've just struggled through picking entire profiles in sketch entity by entity. Surely there is a method to chain select curves in a sketch. For such an elementary thing I am a little embarrased to ask how to chain select entities, but I just haven't found the secret. Just how is this done?

I've looked through Creo's Quick Reference Card, but don't see an answer for this simple action.

The most logical way of selecting by chain would be through the Shift key because Control allows adding curve by curve. Shift key also is used for chain selecting surface chains.

Please help me solve this mystery.

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Best answer by John.Pryal

Hi Paul, i think you can do what you want to. In your active sketch, click the fly out under Select, here you will see one by one, chain, all geometry. Select chain, pick one entity in your sketch, & all chainable entities highlite. Hope this helps.

John

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Inoram

14-Alexandrite

Similarly, it seems like when you pick Project and select Chain, the result is a loop, versus the previous From-To option. Unless there are clicks I am missing.

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pimm

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15-Moonstone

Matt,

I didn't realize you could chain select projected edges. This will certainly come in handy.

I still would like to be able to chain select the curves themselves after they are brought into a sketch. There has to be a way.

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MartinHanak

24-Ruby III

Paul,

please upload .prt file to enable me to understand your situation.

Martin Hanak

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pimm

Author

15-Moonstone

Martin,

I wouldn't be able to describe this better by uploading a file. This situation is duplicated with every sketch that we create. The problem situation is that I just want to chain select the many entities that either are in an open or closed loop.

Perhaps there is a mouse keyboard combination that we are missing, but anything we've tried doesn't work. As with anything else in Creo I'm thinking that once we know how to do it, it will at that point be easy.

I'll attach a picture of an easy sketch that I created on the fly. I've picked the 1st entity and I would expect some kind of pop up option to bring up the chain select or perhaps just pick the entity and be able to chain this by selecting SHIFT. With our other CAD system we select SHIFT and LEFT CLICK at the same time which we've already ruled out in Creo.