# Sketch Copy
**URL:** https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sketch-copy/35906
**Category:** Modeling Questions
**Created:** [January 5, 2025, 3:19am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sketch-copy/35906 "2025-01-05T03:19:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@stone](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/stone)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2025, 3:19am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sketch-copy/35906/1 "2025-01-05T03:19:17Z")
I’m trying or want to copy a spline sketch, and then turn it off and on
to compare my changes?
I see how to copy the sketch,
but it does not seem to become its own sketch.
Any help is appreciated.
I tried the isolation, but I don’t understand what
isolation is doing.
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### Author:  [@SCALEMODEL](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/SCALEMODEL)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2025, 6:47am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sketch-copy/35906/2 "2025-01-05T06:47:35Z")
When you use the Move/Copy tool to duplicate a sketch, if the duplicate is on the same plane it doesn’t create a new sketch layer.
If you move it to a different plane, in this case up it becomes a new sketch. You can move it back to the original spot by zeroing the offset distance.
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### Author:  [@stone](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/stone)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2025, 7:24am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sketch-copy/35906/3 "2025-01-05T07:24:37Z")
Thank you , SO much.
I love this app, and I’ve been practicing, practicing, prcaticing.
I’m getting better, but sometimes I get dumb-stuck.
Many thanks, again. Signing off.
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### Author:  [@JackBaur](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/JackBaur)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sketch-copy/35906/4 "2025-05-04T15:48:34Z")
yeah but if I use rotate transverse to the sketch plane I get a new sketch. How to avoid thet?
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### Author:  [@Xdrakosha](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Xdrakosha)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sketch-copy/35906/5 "2025-05-04T16:35:48Z")
> [@JackBaur](#):
>
> How to avoid thet?
Shapr3D support only 2D sketches. If you move to 3rd dimension you’ll create another sketch.
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### Author:  [@JackBaur](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/JackBaur)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2025, 8:19am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sketch-copy/35906/6 "2025-05-05T08:19:22Z")
However, I don’t want to use a third dimension. I want to mirror an existing sketch and use the rotate tool to rotate it 180deg. It still creates another sketch. What I’m trying to achieve is to create an element and multiply/mirror it within the same sketch
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### Author:  [@Xdrakosha](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Xdrakosha)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2025, 9:11am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sketch-copy/35906/7 "2025-05-05T09:11:31Z")
Make a video. Hard to understand what you’re doing wrong from your description.