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Jayman
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‎04-22-2003 11:47 PM
‎04-22-2003 11:47 PM

Rotating Parts

How can i rotate a part in space exactly 90 degrees? Using no constraints. The "rotate" tool is quite useless (unless it has a hidden box somewhere for entering a rotate angle).
??
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Anonymous
in reply to: Jayman
‎04-22-2003 11:49 PM
‎04-22-2003 11:49 PM

Hit the spacebar then use the Isometric view box
and select the arrows

Jerry


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can i rotate a part in space exactly 90 degrees? Using no constraints. The
"rotate" tool is quite useless (unless it has a hidden box somewhere for
entering a rotate angle).
??
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Anonymous
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‎04-22-2003 11:51 PM
‎04-22-2003 11:51 PM

Oh, I read it wrong! The rotate tool for the parts.
Well I agree, it is pretty clumsy.

Jerry


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

Hit the spacebar then use the Isometric view box
and select the arrows

Jerry


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
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can i rotate a part in space exactly 90 degrees? Using no constraints. The
"rotate" tool is quite useless (unless it has a hidden box somewhere for
entering a rotate angle).
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Anonymous
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‎04-23-2003 12:39 AM
‎04-23-2003 12:39 AM

Get KWiKViews and use the rotate 90 arrows. 8^)
http://www.mymcad.com/KWiK/iCode/icode.htm
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> How can i rotate a part in space exactly 90 degrees? Using no constraints. The "rotate"
tool is quite useless (unless it has a hidden box somewhere for entering a rotate angle).
> ??
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Anonymous
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‎04-23-2003 12:41 AM
‎04-23-2003 12:41 AM

Duhhh sorry, that won't work, I had rotate view on my mind and missed that you were
wanting to rotate the part.

You could constraint the parts planes to the assembly planes to rotate it if you don't
like the rotate thing. Generally though on the rotate tool if you grab right on the line
then as you move it kind of snaps into the 90.

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> Get KWiKViews and use the rotate 90 arrows. 8^)
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Anonymous
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‎04-23-2003 01:26 AM
‎04-23-2003 01:26 AM

my solution is create new work plane/work axis, on which the rotated part
will be located. then place angle constaint btw the work plane and the part.
you can rotate the part at any angle. right?
karl
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How can i rotate a part in space exactly 90 degrees? Using no constraints.
The "rotate" tool is quite useless (unless it has a hidden box somewhere for
entering a rotate angle).
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Anonymous
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‎04-23-2003 01:42 AM
‎04-23-2003 01:42 AM

Either RMB over a part and select Properties and
then the Occurance tab.  On the bottom are specific locations of the part
in the assembly apce where you can move it and rotate it.

 

Otherwise you can go to Bliss' web page and
downlaod the Positioner program where you can rotate it as well.


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can i rotate a part in space exactly 90 degrees? Using no constraints. The
"rotate" tool is quite useless (unless it has a hidden box somewhere for
entering a rotate angle).
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Anonymous
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‎04-23-2003 01:52 AM
‎04-23-2003 01:52 AM


"Either RMB over a part and select Properties and
then the Occurance tab. 

On the bottom are specific locations of the part in
the assembly apce where

you can move it and rotate it."

 

Sure you can rotate?

I can move but not rotate.


 

 
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Jayman
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‎04-23-2003 02:08 AM
‎04-23-2003 02:08 AM

I have tried the "positioner" macro, but it keeps crashing after it askes me if i want to remove the constraints on the part. I tried the rotate tool again to see if it would snap at 90 degress, and it doesn't; i think that only works on rotating views. Also, i cant control the rotation from the occurance settings either (they are greyed out). 😞
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jmartzig
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‎04-23-2003 02:41 AM
‎04-23-2003 02:41 AM

Jayman, why are you shying away from using constraints, out of curiousity? -Joe
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Anonymous
in reply to: Jayman
‎04-23-2003 02:51 AM
‎04-23-2003 02:51 AM

The properties dialog doesn't allow
rotate.

 

The purpose for including the free move/rotate
commands in assemblies was to allow fully UNCONSTRAINED positioning. The
assumption was that IF you needed your moves to be specific, you would apply
constraints.

 

That said, we are looking at hooking the precision
move/rotate tool to (possibly new) capabilities within assemblies. Take a look
at the precision move tool within 3D sketch for
moving/placing points.

 

G
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Jayman
in reply to: Jayman
‎04-23-2003 03:07 AM
‎04-23-2003 03:07 AM

Joe - I usually use constraints for this and then delete them after. Its just that in this particular assembly, nothing is normal to anything else. So, i just need to rotate this one part about itself. It would be neat if i could do something like the re-attach origin command, where i just pick an edge and a degree to rotate about it.
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Anonymous
in reply to: Jayman
‎04-23-2003 03:33 AM
‎04-23-2003 03:33 AM

I just had this same problem. I received a customer assembly in CATIA (70 Meg
file) and translated it into sat, then Inventor. After opening assembly, I
noticed one of the parts was 180 from where it should have been. I wanted to
just turn the part around instead of calling the customer, having them fix the
assembly, uploading the assembly to FTP, redownloading the assembly, etc., etc.,
etc. Thankfully for me I was able to do this after some struggle because 2 of
the parts origin planes were inline with assembly origin (it looks that way,
anyway) Only had to measure the last offset to correctly reposition part. If it
wasn't normal in any direction, I would have been very upset. Now I can call the
customer and they can fix it on their end at their leisure.
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Dave Jacquemotte
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