move / rotate origin??

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I have seen a couple screencasts on this subject but not sure it answers my question.  The origin for this part is not skewed or rotated the way I want to move my part.  What I have is a part in a soft jaws nest for machining.  I have copied the part an pasted new and want to move the part -3.75 in the X axis.  My problem is the axis in not in the direction I want to move the part.  Not sure how to create a new axis to slide the part down for the correct position.

Any suggestions?

[HughesTooling]

On the move dialog there's an option Set Pivot, click it and rotate the pivot when you have the pivot orientation correct click again to set.

Mark

[neljoshua]

@Anonymous,

If I may humbly add to @HughesTooling's post, if there are no features that are in plane with the world coordinates (the directions I think you want to move in), turning on the visibility of the origin will allow you to select it as your pivot point.  Then you can be sure you are moving the feature in only the x, y, or z direction.

[Anonymous]

Hello Mark,

I am aware of setting the pivot point, which is what I did.  I was hoping there was another quicker way since once it is moved I have to rotate it back to the position it was originally in.  I was hoping to create a new axis and slide it down the new axis or something like that..

Thanks

[HughesTooling]

Hello Tommy

If the part is a component you could use move how I described, after clicking OK use capture position. Then is you want the part back in it's original position you can suppress the captured position in the timeline.

Another option as long as you have a component would be to use a joint that way you can edit the position using the joint.

Mark

[Anonymous]

Thanks Mark.  I will look at this option next time I do something like this.

[HughesTooling]

Here's another way using joint origins and a joint. Not sure if you will need to make the rotated joint origins on both parts like in the screencast below. I think this way might be the closest you'll get to creating a new origin.

Mark