Rotate Body around its center

[Anonymous]

There's literally no way to do such simple thing any 3d package has. Or is there? I cant seem to find a way to rotate a body around its center.. or set center point.

[joel.palioca · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Yes we do have the capability to set the center point.  We have some plans to make this more discoverable in the future, hopefully it will be easier to use when that happens.  Below is a video of an example on how you can change the center point so that you can have a different location to rotate around.

 Cheers,

[Anonymous]

Thanks, thats a nice temporary workaround for adjusting the pivot manually and not only by points but I guess it only works okay with bodies of simple shape and defined dimensions.. when you know that width is 100cm you can set the pivot to 50cm and be sure that this is ablosute center.. but with more complex bodies its sometimes a trouble even finding reference point on the center of edge or a face.. or measuring body dimensions EVERY time I want to rotate. cause this edited pivot resets every time.. doesnt look very fluid to me 😕 Would be nice to just have a switch in the dialog to enable "rotating around ablosute center of the body"... what about this?

[joel.palioca]

I am glad that you have a current workaround, and I think these are some good ideas on how to make improvements.

If you are able to, we have an IdeaStation that allows our users to submit ideas and feature enchantments and allows others to upvote them.  It helps us to make sure we are working on the areas our customers want to see improvements.

You can do this by visiting:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation-request-a/idb-p/125

Cheers,

[apostM2K9B]

GAD ZOOKS!  I sure wish people would stop making these screen cast answers.  They can not  be enlarged so you can see what's going on, and there is no sound.  I've only seen one or two from which I can actually garner any information.  In general all they seem to do is show that there IS and answer, but I'm not going to show it to you nor am I going to tell you.  Geez...

[Anonymous]

this is completely useless you can not see what is  going on it is so tiny and no audio and you can not get to expand to fullscreen.

these screencast only answers are less than useless, they are complete waste of time.

[k.c.clark]

The screen cast that supposedly solves the question in not there any more. 

WHAT IS THE SOLUTION PLEASE ?  in a way I can ancually see please.

[asherFTSTR]

Yet another beyond basic brain dead failure on the part of fusion that has yet to be fixed 9 years later.

INSANE  AND UNACCEPTABLE.

[jhackney1972]

Open your model and then center it using a Fit option (F6).  Then you can right click and choose to "Set Orbit Center" to place the orbit center anywhere on the model you desire.  Using your mouse orbit buttons, whatever they are set to, orbit on this point.  When you want to re-center it, zoom all again using the Fit option and then right click and choose "Reset Orbit Center".  The reason you have to Fit the model before doing the Reset Orbit Center is the center must be on the current display.

[asherFTSTR]

And how do I tell it to calculate the center, for example of a cube?

[jhackney1972]

The method I just posted can do this very quickly.  Model the Cube with the origin in the center.  Once you have this simple follow the method I outlined in my post.

[asherFTSTR]

How do you "model the cube with the origin at the center"?

That seems like the most important part of your solution, but you skipped over it entirely.

[etfrench]

Start with a center rectangle then symmetric extrude it.

[asherFTSTR]

Fair enough. For the sake of knowledge, what if I wanted to do it with the box tool?

[etfrench]

Why would you want to use a Box primitive?

[asherFTSTR]

Are you saying it shouldn't exist?

[asherFTSTR]

Cube is still treating the first corner of the rectangle as the origin rather than the origin at its center. How do I make it treat the center as origin? Can't seem to make the "set center" or "reset center" menu item show up. How do I get to it?

[etfrench]

It's not very useful in a parametric modeling software.  Why do you insist on using it when it's trivial to create a parametric cube?

[asherFTSTR]

I'm not insisting on it. I'm trying your approach. 

I only asked because I was curious why it was included. That it is included because it makes no sense follows perfect Autodesk logic, so that explains it.

The real question is why there are things in a parametric modeling app that aren't parametric. Serious fail.

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@asherFTSTR wrote:

The real question is why there are things in a parametric modeling app that aren't parametric. Serious fail.

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The real answer is in the early days they thought they were going to do something different with Fusion (Design Differently was their motto at that time) and Fusion was not a parametric modeler.  As the years have gone by it has evolved to work more and more like everyone else. It is common in software development to not remove legacy tools as newer tools evolve.

@asherFTSTR 

You should always Attach your actual geometry file with questions.  Make up a dummy if the data is proprietary. After all, why are we doing CAD?