Adjust Origin for whole model?

[jfhext]

I recently did a bunch of modeling in which almost all my profiles are in the YZ-plane. Because of gimbal-lock problems, that makes it hard to look at the model with Y pointing up on the screen, and me adjusting the view direction in the ZW plane. Clicking on the oriented-view cube in the upper right helps -- an edge click gets me near a view that I like, but then I cannot easily rotate around z.

Is there a way to re-orient an entire model so that all those sketches I made in the YZ plane become sketches in the XZ plane? (I know I can do something like this during Manufacturing, but I'd like to reset things in the Design space!)

Here's a typical 'almost OK' view.

[jhackney1972]

If you want to change the sketch plane of a "Sketch" in the Model Workspace, the Redefine Sketch Plane command is what you want.  You can select a new origin plane or another created construction plane of your choice.  Be cautious, if you do this early in the timeline before a lot of other features, you could cause a problem.

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[davebYYPCU · Accepted solution]

For the sketches in the top section of the browser, you are stuck with Reorientate sketch plane, (unstable) or copy paste to a new sketch on the required plane.

Usually better to start over.

For the component articles, rotate the component 90 degrees. 

Might help…

[jfhext]

This gave me the nudge I needed, which was that I could make the main line for my construction run along the Z axis, with construction planes perpendicular to that, and move my components onto those planes --- much easier view manipulation now!