# Sketch disappearing

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sketch-disappearing/37144>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [March 21, 2025, 12:13pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sketch-disappearing/37144 "2025-03-21T12:13:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![naujoks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@naujoks](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/naujoks)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 12:13pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sketch-disappearing/37144/1 "2025-03-21T12:13:43Z")

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What’s happening? I press ESC to get out of sketch mode and my sketch disappears completely and I can’t get it back. Undo doesn’t work, there’s nothing to go back to in History.

Also, with the latest version the mouse buttons have changed? Now I can’t rotate the design with the middle mouse button?

Is it me, or has the latest Shapr3D version introduced some bugs?

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**Author:** ![TheBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@TheBum](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/TheBum)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sketch-disappearing/37144/2 "2025-03-21T16:03:31Z")

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If you don’t draw something in a new sketch before exiting, the sketch will be deleted automatically. I don’t mind it because it keeps the project from stacking up a bunch of empty sketches.

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**Author:** ![naujoks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@naujoks](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/naujoks)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 8:19pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sketch-disappearing/37144/3 "2025-03-21T20:19:55Z")

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But I had already drawn something