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About Projecting Geometry
You can create projection geometry using the Project tool or Line or Arc tools. When creating lines, arcs, or splines, you snap the entities to a constraint that is created by the projection of background and temporary cross-sectional entities. When using the Project tool, you create sketched geometry by projecting model geometry and temporary cross-sectional geometry onto a sketching plane. While rubberbanding, you can use the Project tool to select 3D background geometry and temporary cross-sectional geometry and reference them for sketching a geometric entity. The 3D geometry of the following types can be projected using the Project tool:
Temporary 3D cross-sectional geometry
3D curves noncoincident with the sketch plane
3D edges noncoincident with the sketch plane
3D surface regions noncoincident with the sketch plane
2D edges coincident with the sketch plane
Planar surface regions coincident with the sketch plane
Sketch plane cross-sectional edges
Datum axes
Silhouette edges of faces
All one-dimensional geometry types – lines, circles, circular arcs, ellipses, conic arcs, splines – can be projected.