Move 3D Sketch to new Location

[rhasell]

Hi All

I am not sure if this has been asked before or if it even possible?

Can I pick a 3D sketch and move the whole thing closer to 0,0,0 ? It is currently sitting around 5km,10km,2km from zero.

This makes everything very chunky, and very difficult to visulize anything correctly.

This was generated from a site survey, which was work in progress, it has now all been finalised, but I don't want to loose a weeks work by starting again. (Using AutoCAD to move the points to Zero)

Thanks

[MingweiGao]

How complicated of your 3D sketch?

[rhasell]

The sketch is not too complicated, very basic, but there is quite a lot of geometry hanging off it now.

[MingweiGao · Accepted solution]

hello,

I suppose that there isn't a direct method to move 3D sketch.

But I just tried a "workaround" and got the result.  The steps as below:

1. Offset 3 workplanes from your origin workplanes and the dimesions of them is decided by your sketch. That is to say, the dimesions are equal to the distances between the new center and the origin center. Save your part.

2. Create a new assembly and place your saved part into it. Ungrounded it if it has been grounded by default. Add three flush constraints between the assembly origin workplanes and the three "offseted" workplanes. (the part has been moved) Save this assembly.

3. Create a new part and derive the above assembly into it, including the 3D sketch(es) into the new part during the derivation. The new part will have the moved 3D sketch.

Hope this helps

[rhasell]

Hi

Thank you, It worked.

I had already moved the part to zero in the assembly which made no difference, but I never thought of making a new part.