Rotating global coordinate system and/or changing orient views? 1

[ckowalc]

I have created an assembly and found out that when I orient the view to the "Top View" is it actually the side of the part, etc. It seems the views are correlated to the global coordinate system so is there a way I can rotate it so the views are correct?

Thanks

 

[JohnRBaker]

Let me start by pointing out that what you call the "global Coordinate system" has always been referred in UG/NX as the 'Absolute Coordinate System', with emphasis on 'ABSOLUTE'. This means that NO, you can't 'edit' it so that what used to be considered the 'Top' view was somehow now one of the 'Side' views.

If this is really a problem for you, not having the pre-defined standard views coincide with your view of the world, then there are only a few things that you can do. First, you could simply move ALL of the components of the assembly until you have your desired orientation. Or you could create a new empty part file and add your existing assembly to this file as a component and then simply use 'Move Component' to reorient the now single-object into how you want it to be.

Now if you took the second approach, but you really wished that there was no 'higher-level' assembly and IF you did NOT care about any of your assembly constraints, once you had the single-object assembly oriented as you wished, you could go the Assembly Navigator, select all of the components (not the assembly node, but the Components themselves), press MB3 and select 'Copy'. Now open another empty part file and 'Paste' the Components into this file. Your assembly will now be the top-level, all of the subassembly structure will have been maintained, but there will be no constraints in the top-level assembly (however, the subassemblies will have retained their constraints).

Anyway, that's all that I can think of.

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[Arkance/PhoeNX]

Why not try this, View -> Operation -> Orient and then orient the view the way you want.
Then View -> Operation -> Save As and make your own view (you can't overwrite the existing views this way).
You can do this for any number of views.
Then in the Part navigator you select the view you want to use.



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[ckowalc]

Bringing this topic back from the dead. So just to reiterate, for assemblies you can select all components and rotate them with 'Move Component'. However for part files there is nothing you can do but recreate the part correct?

 

[JohnRBaker]

Technically you could try using Move Object. Open the dialog, do a Select All, set the Result option to 'Move Original' and in the Settings section toggle ON 'Move Parents'. Now using the handle tool, rotate around the axis needed to get the orientation that you wish and hit OK.

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[ckowalc]

Well that is simple enough. Any drawbacks to doing it this way?

 

[JohnRBaker]

There are some modeling approaches which may prove to be less suitable for something like this, but they are so part and/or workflow specific that your best bet is to just give it a shot and if after the move operation has been performed, you are still able to edit your model and it updates as expected, then it's probably OK to continue using that part file in it's now 'reoriented' state.

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