Translate and rotate coordinate system WCS

[Anonymous]

How to translate or rotate work coordinate system by a given (selected) amount?

[seth.madore · Accepted solution]

There is no mechanism (directly) in Fusion to accomplish this.

To set your WCS, select "Select Z and X axis" and select accordingly. To place at a specific point, you can create a sketch point or Joint Origin and select that.

My prior experience was in Esprit, and we had that ability to move and rotate any which way. I do miss that at times...

[jcournoyer2]

I was having a difficult time rotating the WCS so the X-axis was on the centerline of my cylindrical part. I created a separate blank component, dragged the part to be machined into the component file, corrected the rotation with the move command. Once complete, I broke the link and saved the part. Note that the X-axis has to be correct in Design mode which is on the centerline of the part. The WCS rotation in mfg mode will not help you.

[seth.madore]

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@jcournoyer2 wrote:

I was having a difficult time rotating the WCS so the X-axis was on the centerline of my cylindrical part. I created a separate blank component, dragged the part to be machined into the component file, corrected the rotation with the move command. Once complete, I broke the link and saved the part. Note that the X-axis has to be correct in Design mode which is on the centerline of the part. The WCS rotation in mfg mode will not help you.

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What exactly were you trying to accomplish with these steps?

[jcournoyer2]

When you are doing 4 axis machining your working on cylindrical parts typically and your X axis has to be colinear with the centerline of the part which is also colinear with the 3 jaw chuck of the 4th axis device. It doesn't matter which way the positive axis is pointing, it just has to be that way when you first make the part.  I tried tricking it by bring the component in to a new file and adjusting the orientation accordingly. Doesn't work.  I can just change the sketch plane that the sketch plane was on and call it the day

[programming2C78B]

you need to flip your Y direction if you want to change where X- is pointing in your MFG Setup