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Rotate Plane view

Rotate Plane view

Rotate Plane view

(OP)
I am having a problem with the plane orientation.
When hitting "normal to" on a plane, I find the sketch rotated, see image.
Is there a way to alter the plane orientation? Everytime I create a new plane, it is oriented in this rotated way which is a pain when sketching..

RE: Rotate Plane view

Turn on the Triad and the origin, that will you understand what the orientation is. I cannot tell from you image what is going on.

Scott Baugh, CSWP pc2
Berry Plastics
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RE: Rotate Plane view

(OP)
The origin and original planes are randomly placed. Its from scanned data.

Basically I want the line that is pointed to in the attached image to be horizontal when pressing "normal to" on the "middle plain".

RE: Rotate Plane view

Then u will have to rotate the sketch to match the Origin axis then the plane will probably be fine.

Scott Baugh, CSWP pc2
Berry Plastics
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GEASWUG Greater Evansville Area SWUG Leader
www.scottjbaugh.com

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RE: Rotate Plane view

SolidWorks orients planes based on a mathematical calculation of the kernal based more on relation to origin. Because of that even a plane created by 3 points will not have it's horizontal direction between points 1 & 2. The only way to achieve the orientation you want easily is to create a sketched surface plane and even then it may not be correctly oriented. Even a 0 offset ref plane may still orient as your middle plane does. I assume you already tried making a plane through the annotated line normal to it's perpendicular one attached and one through it and at angle to that plane. If not give that a try

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