{"id":23926,"date":"2019-07-11T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/?p=23926"},"modified":"2019-07-11T08:48:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T12:48:35","slug":"solidworks-how-to-create-virtual-sharps-in-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2019\/07\/solidworks-how-to-create-virtual-sharps-in-sketches.html","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS How-To: Create Virtual Sharps in Sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Virtual Sharps in Sketches<\/h1>\n<p>Sometimes you want a point in a sketch that represents the location of 2 lines intersecting, even though they don\u2019t actually share a point. These points can be created and are called virtual sharps in SOLIDWORKS.<\/p>\n<h1>Sketch Fillet Scenario<\/h1>\n<p>One scenario occurs when using the\u00a0<strong>Sketch Fillet<\/strong>\u00a0command. Points that are already constrained can be kept as virtual sharps if &#8220;Keep Constrained Corners&#8221; is active in the PropertyManager of the Sketch Fillet tool, as seen in Visual 1 below.<\/p>\n<h1>Alternate Scenario<\/h1>\n<p>What about virtual sharps where you\u2019re not using Sketch Fillet? The solution is easy: simply select 2 lines that would intersect if extended, then click the\u00a0<b>Point<\/b>\u00a0command on the Sketch tab of the CommandManager while those lines are still selected. Viola! Virtual sharp created. This is shown in Visual 3 below.<\/p>\n<h1>Sharing Tips<\/h1>\n<p>We hope you found these tips helpful. Feel free to share with other SOLIDWORKS users. Every little improvement helps when it comes to timely sketching.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visual 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23928 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/Resized-Virtual-Sharps-Image-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"736\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/Resized-Virtual-Sharps-Image-1.png 600w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/Resized-Virtual-Sharps-Image-1-300x107.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visual 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23929 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/Resized-Visual-2.png\" alt=\"Virtual sharp created after fillet applied\" width=\"466\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/Resized-Visual-2.png 600w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/Resized-Visual-2-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visual 3:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23930 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/resized-Virtual-Sharps-cover-image.png\" alt=\"Two lines in a sketch, with Point command\" width=\"511\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/resized-Virtual-Sharps-cover-image.png 600w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/resized-Virtual-Sharps-cover-image-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>This blog is authored by John Setzer, GSC\u2019s Training Product Manager. John discovered his love of teaching early in life. He worked his way through college as a youth coach, umpire, and referee before earning his bachelor\u2019s degree in education. As Training Manager at GSC, he has been sharing his SOLIDWORKS wisdom with GSC customers ever since \u2013 21 years and counting! John is a Certified SOLIDWORKS Expert (CSWE), a Certified SOLIDWORKS Instructor, and a Certified SOLIDWORKS Technician. As the only CSWE with a state certification in teaching, John is well-versed is teaching all types of learning styles. John is a regular contributor to the GSC blog, available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsc-3d.com\/articles\">www.gsc-3d.com\/articles<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Sharps in Sketches Sometimes you want a point in a sketch that represents the location of 2 lines intersecting, even though they don\u2019t actually share a point. These points can be created and are called virtual sharps in SOLIDWORKS.<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2019\/07\/solidworks-how-to-create-virtual-sharps-in-sketches.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":23927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,35],"tags":[2578,2577],"class_list":["post-23926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks","category-tips-tricks","tag-solidworks-sketches","tag-virtual-sharps"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23926"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24024,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23926\/revisions\/24024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}