Help needed on rotating solid feature

[ngkw1]

Hi. I have created a solid using extrusion. I needed to rotate the solid around z-axis 45 degree. I can seemed to find any command in Solidworks 2004 that allow me to rotate the created solid. I hope someone know how to do it.

 

[Theophilus]

Rotate your sketch by 45 degrees, if within a part file.

If within an assembly file, create your mates such that you mate one plane at 45 degrees from another.

That's my best guess as to what you mean.

Jeff Mowry

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.

 

[ctopher]

Create a new plane at 45 deg, move the existing sketch to the new plane.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-05)

 

[ngkw1]

Thanks everyone for the advices. I did what ctopher
advised. I was hoping to rotate the solid part along z-axis
directly.

 

[handleman]

You can do that with Insert->Features->Body Move/Rotate, but I believe that's not considered best modeling practice by most.

 

[SBaugh]

It's not best modeling practice at all, because that falls back on design intent. However you can use handleman's advice, because that would be the only way to rotate a solid. However if you just want to do a single extrusion you will probably have to make it into a separate body and rotate/move the body from the rest of the part.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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