Reference Planes

[ajs4653]

I'm trying to change the orientaion of my reference planes for an assembly. I need to replace an assembly in another file with this assembly and the oriention of the reference planes are such that if I replace the assembly, it will be on it's side. I want to change the reference planes so that when I replace the asm it fits in perfectly like the last one. I am using ST4 and any help would be great.

Thanks,

 

[beachcomber]

You can't change the orientation of base reference planes.
If your part/assembly is grounded in the higher level you can change orientation with occurrence properties, or delete the ground constraint and mate the planes as required.

bc.
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[keyepitts]

You can also create a new assembly, insert the assembly that you need to reorient, and reorient as desired. Then insert/replace this new assembly into your top level assembly.

 

[beachcomber]

You could also create a new co-ordiate system aligned as you want it to be, then use that for positioning.
Remember that a co-ordinate system has 3 planes as well as the 3 axes.

bc.
Core i5-3570 @3.4GHz , 8GB RAM
Quadro FX4600. W7 Pro 64-bit.