# Copy/Paste sketch elements?

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/copy-paste-sketch-elements/36334>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [February 1, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/copy-paste-sketch-elements/36334 "2025-02-01T01:30:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![TexInventor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/texinventor/32/30459_2.png) [@TexInventor](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/TexInventor)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/copy-paste-sketch-elements/36334/1 "2025-02-01T01:30:53Z")

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Brand new to Shapr3D, but have some vintage 3D CAD experience, and am still sorting out how to do things.

I have some sketches that take a bit to produce, and I want to replicate those (often in another plane). I see how to move sketch elements within a sketch, but is there any way to either copy them between sketches or maybe even copy an entire sketch to another plane? (Maybe even to another project? But I’d settle for moving them inside just one…)

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**Author:** ![SCALEMODEL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@SCALEMODEL](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/SCALEMODEL)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 2:04am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/copy-paste-sketch-elements/36334/2 "2025-02-01T02:04:35Z")

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Here is a way to change orientation and to combined sketches.

I have 3 different independent sketches…

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Select the sketch in history and change planes or just orient the sketch 90 degrees.

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I still have 3 independent sketch.

Visually it’s easier if move away from the sketch you want to combine with.

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Use Project tool to select the sketch you want to combine with, purple is the target for the blue selected sketches.

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I used to use Autocad when it was in MSDOS good times!

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**Author:** ![arroniow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/arroniow/32/30268_2.png) [@arroniow](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/arroniow)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/copy-paste-sketch-elements/36334/3 "2025-02-01T12:37:03Z")

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Worth noting that the sketch plane setting in the History Panel will not just move 90 degree sketches.  
It will take a sketch at any angle and put it on the axis plane.  
It is a quick way to EXPORT and SAVE a 2D DXF for CNC cutting  
After exporting the 2D DXF, you simply UNDO back to where it was, which means no extra items in the History Panel.

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**Author:** ![TexInventor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/texinventor/32/30459_2.png) [@TexInventor](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/TexInventor)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/copy-paste-sketch-elements/36334/4 "2025-02-02T16:04:32Z")

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Thanks, looks like the Project tool is the key there. I’ve never used it, so I’ll have to check it out. That might also solve another problem I have where I have a slanted line I want to project back along another line to create a plane.

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**Author:** ![TexInventor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/texinventor/32/30459_2.png) [@TexInventor](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/TexInventor)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/copy-paste-sketch-elements/36334/5 "2025-02-02T16:13:02Z")

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I don’t need this now, but I’m likely to in a few weeks, so thanks for the tip! I’m still learning Shapr3D and haven’t even picked a CAM package use yet. (3D CNC router with a few extra axes to do 3D printing-like stuff…)