Manually Rotate a Plane

[macduff]

How do I manually rotate a plane about an axis? See attached file.

Things to know about the file:
"Rotate Along Axis1" is the plane I would like to rotate.
"Axis1" is the axis I would like to rotate about.

Thanks,

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2007 SP 5.0
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[JMirisola]

Do you mean you want to be able to grab the plane and rotate it? I don't think you can. About the only thing you can do is edit the feature and rotate it that way.

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[takedownca]

In your file it looks like you can't select Axis1 in the definition of the "Rotate Along Axis1" plane because it comes later in the feature tree. If you put Axis1 before "Rotate Along Axis1" you are not given the option to rotate about that axis.

 

[takedownca]

Oops, "not given the option" should be "now given the option"

 

[smcadman]

Don't know how to rotate THAT particular plane, but here is a work-around:

ctrl+pick "Rotate Along Axis1" & "Axis1" then Insert > Reference Geometry > Plane, then enter the angle you want to rotate the new plane.

Flores

 

[Theophilus]

I do that like Flores, too. Used to need it to get text to read in the proper direction--but I think you can select the text and mirror it now, so it's no longer necessary for that reason.



Jeff Mowry

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[macduff]

Jeff and Flores,
I did try that, and it does work, but the planes view box gets skewed and not parallel to the original plane where it was rotated from. I don't know if I'm explaining this right, so I'll come back a picture in a bit.

takedownca,
Where's the option to rotate abount an axis? I did move the axis up in the tree.

Thanks,


Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2007 SP 5.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
I'm just a little verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic. Pink Floyd, was neither Pink nor Floyd. Discuss!--“Coffee Talk” Mike Myers SNL

 

[smcadman]

The plane "Rotate Along Axis1" is already at an angle. Whenever you rotate that plane, the new plane will be skewed also.

If you pick the "Rotate Along Axis1" plane, and choose "normal to" view, you will see the Y axis is going left to right, and the x axis is going up and down. This may be why the new plane is skewed.



Flores