It's not possible to change the orientation of a work plane. The only
changes you can make are to modify the visible size of the plane, change any
parameters that control it, or change any geometry it is dependent on. The
last two will cause the work plane to update. Because work planes are
dependent on other geometry for the position and orientation you can't
arbitrarily rotate them.
You do have more control over a sketch. Interactively, when first creating
a sketch you just select a work plane or face and it creates the sketch.
However, once you have an existing sketch you can modify it's orientation by
right-clicking on the sketch (when you're not currently editing it) and
choosing "Edit coordinate system". This allows you to define the origin and
the x and y axes. A sketch is also dependent on other geometry so you can't
just arbitrarily change any of these but you can select new geometry for it
to be dependent on. For example if you have a line in another sketch that
you want to align the x-axis of this sketch with you can do that.
Using the API there are two ways to create a sketch; the Add and the
AddWithOrientation methods. The Add method is equivalent to the behavior in
the user-interface where you just provide a plane and Inventor automatically
determines the orientation. The AddWithOrientation method allows you to
specify all of the orientation information during creation. You can also
edit any of this after the sketch is created (regardless of which method was
used). This is equivalent to using the "Edit coordinate system" command.
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Brian Ekins
Autodesk Inventor API
wrote in message news:[email protected]...
Hi, I have created a new workplane which is parallel to XZ-plane by using
the "AddByPlaneAndOffset" method.
Now i want to rotate my new work plane with some angle and i want to draw
sketch on the plane.
So, i request to kindly provide the solution
