How do I select an axis of rotation for a sketch element?

[RoboDLC]

I am using Fusion 360 2.0.5688 on Windows 10 pro

I have a complex sketch in which I have a rectangle that I wish to rotate. 

I select the rectangle (by clicking in its area, which highlights the rectangle), right-click to move, select the pivot point, click on the rotate icon in the move/copy popup and it says to pick a rotate axis.  I have been unable to figure out how to just select the plane in which the element is drawn.  How do I just rotate the sketch element in its sketch plane?

Many thanks,

DLC

[g-andresen]

Hi,

you can illustrate the description with pictures

günther

[RoboDLC · Accepted solution]

Well,

I figured it out by trying everything that I could think of, and guessing.

When I selected the area of the rectangle, the "move" popup said that I had selected an element.  But I really had not selected what I wanted.  At this point I select all four sides of the rectangle (after removing parallel constraints and adding perpendicular ones).  I Then selected the pivot point, moved the rotate arc a bit so that the green check appeared next to the angle, clicked the check and now the rectangle rotated using the graphical rotate arc.  Oh, turning on the "make a copy" ability showed where it was moving to.  The secret was selecting all four sides, not the area of the rectangle.  Nuance that was not visible in any of the videos that I watched.

Hopefully this will help the next person puzzled by this process.

DLC

[chrisplyler]

A closed loop of sketch elements creates and defines a Profile (the shaded in area). Since the Profile is not an element itself, but instead just a detection of a closed loop of sketch elements...if you want to rotate or otherwise move a Profile, you of course need to rotate or otherwise move all the sketch elements that define it.

Once you think about it like this, it all makes sense.

[RoboDLC]

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@chrisplyler wrote:

A closed loop of sketch elements creates and defines a Profile (the shaded in area). Since the Profile is not an element itself, but instead just a detection of a closed loop of sketch elements...if you want to rotate or otherwise move a Profile, you of course need to rotate or otherwise move all the sketch elements that define it.

Once you think about it like this, it all makes sense.

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Oh yeah, in hindsight, everything is simple.  🙂

There are still some quirks in there, from my point of view.  Eventually I see the big picture.

thanks,

DLC