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Switch Sketch Plane

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lab2010

Aerospace
Mar 21, 2014
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Is there a way in NX 8.5 to change the plane of a sketch? I had a sketch plane on the face of an extrude in my part. I changed the dimensions of my extrude, and somehow the plane did not move with the face. So now I have my sketch in some arbitrary plane in empty space. I cannot find an option that allows me to "change sketch plane" or something like that. Does a feature similar to this exist? If not, I guess copy would be best option? I just don't want to copy because I will then have to go in and redo any references to the dimensions in that sketch. If I could just change the sketch plane, everything would remain intact.

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Right click your sketch in the part navigator and choose "edit parameters"; one of the buttons near the bottom will allow you to 'reattach' your sketch. Click this button and a dialog will open that allows you to redefine the sketch plane, horizontal reference, etc.

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Something that may confuse you is the two directions (that you can flip) so you need to be aware of your plane normal direction as well as the X-axis (or y-axis) direction ~~~ or your sketch may not be orieted on your new plane the way you would like it.
 
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