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.