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NX8 - Reorient Assembly Referenced by Drawing, while maintaining drawing views?

NX8 - Reorient Assembly Referenced by Drawing, while maintaining drawing views?

NX8 - Reorient Assembly Referenced by Drawing, while maintaining drawing views?

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Somehow we have a drawing of an assembly that was created in the wrong coordinate system.

The assembly was placed so that:

+Z became +Y
-Y became +X
-X became +Z

When we send out drawings to manufacturing we convert it with a Journal that basically exports STEP and IGES of the 3D assembly along with PDF of the drawing. The end result is that the 3D CAD is in the wrong orientation. I could make a unique assembly which reorients this assembly correctly and run that through the macro and just take the 3D CAD from that and the 2D PDF from the existing drawing, but then I have to make sure that happens at each and every revision (or draft revision). Ideally, I would like to put the assembly back into the original proper orientation in the drawing and have all the views still "correct". However, if I simply do that manually then all the views show the assembly in the unintended orientation and I would need to recreate all 22 views and redimension, and, and, and...and I don't want to do that!

Is there any "permanent" solution to my predicament that doesn't involve recreating the drawing, or making an exception as to how I export the data from this drawing each time?

Thanks,
Jeff

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