Accurately Rotating a Component

[jsmPGF5C]

Hi all.

I'm having trouble accurately rotating a pinion gear that I've imported. I'm trying to line it up exactly with the Y axis so that I can then use it with a rack gear. You can see in the screen recording that I've tried to rotate it by "measuring" from a sketch, referencing points on the teeth.

Would really appreciate some help on this.

Thanks

[etfrench]

Use the Measure tool to get the angle between the two lines.  Use the angle in the Move tool.

[jsmPGF5C]

I tried this also. But as you can see in the recording, when I go to check if the component is lined up after rotating, it is slightly off. It' like the angle is being rounded.

[jsmPGF5C]

After doing this, when I go to check its aligned, you can see that it's slightly out. But when I measure the angle between the two lines it says 0.0deg - even with "all decimals" selected.

[etfrench · Accepted solution]

In Preferences change the Angular Precision to the maximum.  The gear is currently -.024995615 degrees off.

[jsmPGF5C]

Ah didn't realise there was a separate setting there. Thanks!

[chrisplyler]

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