Is There A Way To Avoid/Disable the "Automatic Zoom Out" When Switching to Sketch mode?

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I am working on a large design, approximately 46" in diameter. Every time I’m zoomed in on a face and then want to edit it via sketch mode, when I do select ‘Sketch on Face’, Shapr automatically zooms all the way out so that the entire face is now visible in the workspace. With such a large surface, this now makes all the details appear very small on my monitor. Invariably, I then have to zoom back in manually and reacquire the actual spot I was trying to edit. Many of the details are repeated patterns, so this is not always a simple task.

Is there a way to just switch to sketch mode without the camera view zooming out to orbital view? I don’t want the view to change, I just want to start drawing on the face exactly where it was prior to selecting sketch mode.

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Can you show an example?

I just tried to recreate your situation and failed.

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sure, I just realized though it doesn’t happen when switching to Sketch from the main menu, it happens when switching to “Sketch on Face” from the dropdown when you right click on the face.

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“Sketch on face” is the same as clicking “New Sketch” from the menu and selecting a face.

When you use this method, you’re literally asking the app to create a new sketch instead of editing the existing one.

In certain cases, it merges the new sketch with the previously created one, so it may seem like you’re editing the existing sketch.

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interesting, thank you for that clarification!

I had no idea. I just assumed since what I wanted to do was draw on a face, that the “Sketch on Face” dropdown option was the one I needed to select.

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You can see in the video that using “Sketch on Face” opens the previous sketch for editing only if creating that sketch was the last action in the history.

Otherwise, each time you use “Sketch on Face”, you’re creating a new sketch.

As a result, this leads to a lot of unnecessary sketches and difficulty figuring out which one is which.

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thanks for that video. Maybe this explains why my Shapr app gets stuck in ‘spinning cursor’ all the time-- because I was inadvertently creating too many sketches using “sketch on face”.

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So the reason why it zooms out, the whole top is one piece, one big face.

Just select the sketch, that activates sketch mode. You can also just select the sketch and do Zoom To Feature.

Another feature you can utilize, Saved View. You are making something very WIDE I was making something very tall. Saved View in key area helped me minimize zooming.

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