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Entering a sketch, rotation of the canvas

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akillion
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Entering a sketch, rotation of the canvas

I have a question regarding sketches. When I open up a sketch on the xy plane, the sketch is created normally as I would expect, but when I open up a sketch on the xz or yz plane my canvas is rotated either 90(YZ plane) or 180(XZ plane) degrees. This seems strange to me as when I use dynamic input my Y ends up being my X input while on the YZ plane. Is there any way to change this so that my sketch planes enter me into my Y being up and my Z being across and not rotating my views at all? It is not the end of the world obviously, but when this happens while trying to teach high school kids about multi view drawings and using the program it gets many of them confused and is a pain.

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CCarreiras
in reply to: akillion

Hi!

 

I agree with you, it's really annoying!!


You can't avoid that on sketch creation, but after create the sketch, you can edit the coordinate system for further edits.

 

 

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CCarreiras
in reply to: akillion

Hi!

 

After select the "Edit coordinate system", select Y in the triad and select the Y axis in the browser (origin Folder). The coordinates system will change.
Close/Open the sketch, and the coordinate system is as you want.

 

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akillion
in reply to: akillion

Thanks for the reply and help, boggles my mind that by default it does that when you enter a sketch. 

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CCarreiras
in reply to: akillion

 

I think exist a topic about this issue already in the "Invention Idea Station" to be solved in the 2015 version.

 

You can go there and give a "kudos" to the topic.

 

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PaulMunford
in reply to: akillion

I find that observing the UCS helps me to orientated myself. You can use the view cube to rotate your view.

I agree that it's annoying!

 


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