unable to rotate a face using SolidEdit with Reference

[Anonymous]

Hello.

I have tried all methods came to my mind to rotate a face around an axis using SolidEdit command. If I enter the rotating angle it works as expected but If I want to use referencing to determine the angle it does not work or does not rotate my desired angle.

Please see the screencast to see my problem. How can I reference to an angle?

[imadHabash]

>> Please see the screencast to see my problem.

Where is it ?!!

[Anonymous]

Sorry I just realized that I must have pressed the Insert button 

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here I linked to it again

 

[leeminardi · Accepted solution]

In theory, after getting the prompt:

Specify a rotation angle or [Reference]: 

you should enter an r for reference and then pick 2 points to define a base reference direction for the rotation.  After specify those 2 points you will be prompted for the ending angle point.  I was not able to get this to work with solidedit.  

The rotate3d command has a similar reference option. It requires the user to specify 2 points for the base angle and 2 more for the end angle.  Not the friendliest command.  I usually find using align much easier than rotate reference but this is not an option for solidedit.

Here is a the prompt stream for solid edit rotate reference.

Command: SOLIDEDIT
Solids editing automatic checking:  SOLIDCHECK=1
Enter a solids editing option [Face/Edge/Body/Undo/eXit] <eXit>: f
Enter a face editing option
[Extrude/Move/Rotate/Offset/Taper/Delete/Copy/coLor/mAterial/Undo/eXit] <eXit>: r
Select faces or [Undo/Remove]: 1 face found.
Select faces or [Undo/Remove/ALL]:
Specify an axis point or [Axis by object/View/Xaxis/Yaxis/Zaxis] <2points>: y
Specify the origin of the rotation <0,0,0>:
Specify a rotation angle or [Reference]: r
Specify the reference (starting) angle <0>:  Specify second point:
Specify the ending angle:
Solid validation started.
Solid validation completed.

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[Anonymous]

So you could not get rotate face with reference to work?

Before I post the problem I searched for hours but no one had talked about using face rotate using reference. Probably people don't use this feature and as you said they may use Align instead. Otherwise there would have been lots of questions about it.

Thank you I will try Align to see how it works for faces.

[leeminardi]

Align is not an option within the solidedit command.  I think you will need to determine the angle and then use that and forget about using reference.

[SEANT61]

The rotate by Reference option becomes rather sketchy in 3d.  Similar to the command macro shown in this thread:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/recommend-a-book-or-demonstrate-how-to-specify-angles-a...

The Cal function can be used within a command macro to help create the Reference option:

^C^C_solidedit;_face;_rotate;\;\\'cal;ang(cur,cur,cur,cur);\\\\;;;

The Cal function does require an extra Point Selection or two, but may be worth the effort if the Solid Editing feature were needed often enough.  Screencast to see the command macro in action:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/83dd9e9b-0f13-45c7-8088-8c3abc33960c