How to rotate body when creating a part

[Anonymous]

I have created by 3D part and want to rotate it before putting into the assembly.

I looked at all of the Help info, and a couple of screencasts.  In the screencasts, the move body option under Modify has three panels to enter angles.

The online help talks about entering an angle.

I am using Inventor 2015, and my dialog box does have have any provision for entering an angle.

What am I missing or not doing.

Thanks.

[SBix26]

I think it would be a waste of your time to re-orient the part via Move Body.  Place it into your assembly and constrain it there to the orientation that you need.

But, to answer your question, see the image below-- when you click on the Move operation, you then have three choices of move types, the last of which is Rotate.  But, to repeat myself, don't bother doing this just to get it turned the right way for your assembly.  That's what constraints are for.

Sam B

Inventor Professional 2016 Update 2
Vault Basic 2016
Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit, SP1

[blair]

Once you insert the part into your assembly and before you place any constraints, select the part, then hold down the "G" key, this will allow to"Drag- free-rotate" the part with the mouse.

[JDMather]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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What am I missing or not doing......

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Can you attach your assembly here?

Edit:  Ok, I took a look at your other threads.  How would  you rotate the part in the real world?  You do it the same way in Inventor.

Attach your assembly here and end all doubt.

[Anonymous]

OK, obviously I didn't explain well enough as to what I need to do.  Attached is a screenshot of the part as created so far.

I need to rotate the part 45 degrees counterclockwise around the axis of the radiused edge so that I can add holes to the face which currently sloped at 45 degrees.

How do I accomplish this?

Thanks.

[SBix26]

Attach the part, please.  Somebody will show you how.  Too hard to understand what you're wanting to do just from the picture.

Edit: if the face you want to put holes in is actually a flat surface, simply start a new sketch on that face and place your hole centers.

Sam B

Inventor Professional 2016 Update 2
Vault Basic 2016
Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit, SP1

[mcgyvr]

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@Anonymous wrote:

OK, obviously I didn't explain well enough as to what I need to do.  Attached is a screenshot of the part as created so far.

I need to rotate the part 45 degrees counterclockwise around the axis of the radiused edge so that I can add holes to the face which currently sloped at 45 degrees.

How do I accomplish this?

Thanks.

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Pick Start 2d sketch button and then just pick the face you want to create the holes on.. (The sloped face you are talking about )

No need to rotate a part at all..

You might want to get some more training/follow some tutorials..

OR wait? are you even aware that you can rotate/orbit your part around to look at different sides (not changing its UCS but just visually rotating it like its a real 3d part on your screen) ? I think thats where you are lost (must be brand spanking new to Inventor)

If so.. Here

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2014/ENU/Inventor/files/GUID-39793B52-120D-491B-B1A0-A93ECE9AF13E-htm.html

or hold shift and drag the middle mouse button..

or hold F4 and use the orbit crosshairs to rotate the part around..

[JDMather]

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LewisHughes wrote: 

OK, obviously I didn't explain well enough ....

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Why does the software Autodesk Inventor even exist?  Ponder that a bit.

If we could explain all in words - word processing software is much cheaper than MCAD software.

Even with the words-only I suspect nearly everyone here understood that for you to really understand the problem you would have to attach your assembly here and someone will create a video on how to manipulate your assembly as it would be done in the real world.

[Anonymous]

My appologies to all.  I did not understand that if I tried to put a hole in a sloped face, it would automatically make the hole perpendicular to the face.  I have looked at a number of tutorials, and I have two 3rd party books that I use for reference, but I have not seen this covered in any of those places.

Thanks to all who tried to help.

Lewis

[mcgyvr]

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@Anonymous wrote:

My appologies to all.  I did not understand that if I tried to put a hole in a sloped face, it would automatically make the hole perpendicular to the face.  I have looked at a number of tutorials, and I have two 3rd party books that I use for reference, but I have not seen this covered in any of those places.

Thanks to all who tried to help.

Lewis

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Yep picking that sloped face makes it the active "sketching plane" and all features will come out perpendicular (normal) to the plane