How to change the plane of a 2D import?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm very new (1st sketch!) to Fusion 360.

I have createsd a pulley as a 2d drawing in Gearotic and I have imported the file as a DXF.  When I do so, the pulley is sitting vertically so that if I want to extrude it or pull it, it wouls happen in the Y axis and not the Z axis.  I would like to move the pulley to be flat so that if I extrude or pull, the object gets larger in the Z direction.

I tried to select all and do a copy.  Then I deleted the gear and tried to paste it into the appropriate plane and it didnt work, there was nothing in the clipboard.

Can someone lend a hand?  Thanks, Tom

[HughesTooling]

The reason the menu item is missing is because the sketch is imported, if you were to make a sketch in a new design and copy\paste the pulley into that sketch it would have a plane you could redefine. 

I think you'll be lucky to get away with machining that deep with a 1mm cutter. Even if you modify the depth of the cutout you'd only be able to increase the size to 1.5mm and I doubt that would work either. If you want to try in the Parameters change the bit in the rectangle to  OD - ( 2 * 2 mm ) to make the tooth form deeper, after clicking OK you'll need to press Crrl+b to recalculate all.

Mark

[Anonymous]

Hi Mark,

Many thanks for all the tips.  I decided to try a much smaller gear (30 teeth) to see if things would work out.  I also only had a 1/16" (0.0625") inch end mill.  I tried this in acrylic (all I have at the moment) and I'm happy to say it seem that this is going to work out just fine.  If I engage the belt into the pulley, it seems to mesh perfectly adequate except that I need a little tension on the belt so that it engages completely.  I guess this is normal?  I mean when you tighten a belt on anything, the belt stretches a bit so this would seem to be what one wants.

Now, the teeth appear to engage perfectly.  I think that this will be fine for my application which calls for rotation at a maximum speed of 0.25 revelotions per minute i.e. very slow.  There is also hardly any strain on the rotation.

So it would seem that all should be OK.

Thanks agian for all your help!

Best regards, Tom