3d rotate a solid

[MikeKovacik4928]

Hi all

How do you rotate, in AutoCAD, a single solid object separately without rotating complete view.

In inventor it is called free rotate, see attached

Regards

Mike Kovacik

AutoCAD 2D & 3D & Inventor Manufacturing Draughtsman

Johannesburg, South Africa

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> How do you rotate, in AutoCAD, a single solid object separately

command _3DROTATE or command _ROTATE3D

- alfred -

[imadHabash]

Hi,

you can select the item that you want to rotate then a 3d gismo will appear.right click (see attached) then select rotate.

i hope that it will help...

[MikeKovacik4928]

How do you get the gizmo to appear?

does this then allow you to do realtime 3d rotating like inventor

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> How do you get the gizmo to appear?

Select the solid-object and make sure to turn on the Gizmo display, either from the ribbon or from the status-bar.

(or start the command as I mentioned above)

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

Hi,

select the 3D object>bring the crosshair on the intersection grip (small red square) of UCS icon (gizmo)>right click for options>rotate.

free rotate is not available in AutoCAD.

Thanks

Karan

[MikeKovacik4928]

Still battled to git it working.

Finally discovered that you have to be in a 3d view, and hidden or shaded.

I was trying from the plan view in wireframe, from whence the gizmo was just not appearing.

Thanks to Karan who guided me in the direction of finding the solution,

and pointed out that free 3d rotate is an inventor command only

and not available in autocad.

AutoCAD is really bringing so many inventor like commands

that Free 3D rotate for an object would be really nice as well

in Autocad

[MikeKovacik4928]

okay

Gizmo is rather limited compared to Inventor, you can only rotate about the 3 major axes.

While I was doing this my view cube seems to have disabled itself. I click on "top" face of

view cube or any other view cube functions and nothing happens.

What have I done? How do I get them back (see attached)

[dgorsman]

I find the gizmo fine for arbitrary rotations, but most of the time the rotation is specific (by angle and/or axis).  That's where the 3DROTATE command comes into play.  I can rotate around any major axis, including one defined by the current UCS, or by specifying an arbitrary axis with 2 points.

[MikeKovacik4928]

okay I got my view cube back by closing & reopening drawing.

I suppose the way autocad works, the free 3d rotate that inventor has

is not really necessary. In autocad you have to move all 3d objects in one

file a finite distance or angle.

In Inventor you have multiple parts in an assembly file and have to constrain them

to each other. Sometimes when constraining, the free rotate is nice

to make an unseen face accessible for a constraint.

Any way I know how to 3d rotate in AutoCAD now.

Inventor is still my first choice for 3d work.

AutoCAD fantastic for 2d work, which inventor can't really handle.

AutoCAD is workable in 3d, but much more laborious!

[Anonymous]

OK maybe I'm confused, but free rotate (or move) in INVENTOR is to "temporarily" rotate (or move) an object out of its constraints, and once complete the component will return to its constrained location(s)/relationship(s).  AutoCAD won't do that.  3DROTATE or ROTATE or ALIGN will physically rotate the object and you'd need to reverse the steps (or undo) to put it back.

If you just wish to SEE the object from a different viewpoint try 3DORBIT or 3DORBITCTR.

[MikeKovacik4928]

Exactly

Maybe I wasn't making myself clear.

That's why I was saying that free rotate would be no good in autocad.

and that I am only using it in Inventor to temporarily view a face before I constrain it.

I could also use 3d orbit I suppose, or even hover nearby and scroll through the

faces recognised nearby.

My first post saying it would be useful in autocad, might not be so accurate.

It could only be used for arbitrary 3d rotations in presentations such as I am doing now

I was hoping to use it in autocad to view a presentation sheet on 2D & 3D Blocks

for a certain project. I am  combining 2D & 3D blocks onto 2D plan view

 I want to slightly rotate the 3D blocks so you can see they are 3D.

I can now use 3drotate & gizmo for that

[Anonymous]

ok......

In paperspace on a layout tab, you can look at a model or any part of a model in ANY direction you like, in multiple viewports on the same page.  With some creative viewport clipping you can "see" a rotated view of the model "inside" an orthographic (2D) view of the same model.  You can even DVIEW clip, or 3DCLIP views inside viewports to create sections or elevations with limited display "depth".  If you actually rotate the model it'll bugger it up in all the other viewports that are looking at the same model.

[MikeKovacik4928]

Yes

Paperspace would be the perfect solution.

No need to worry about rotating model orientation at all,

just rotate viewport orientation.

I remember when paperspace first came out,

and how I had to "twist" everybody's arm in the drawing

office at the time, that it was " the way to go"

I do work in paper space, funnily enough, I just started this project

and setting up the blocks for the drafters. from the drawings I did in inventor,

Everybody

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