re-orient a part's coordinate system

[cmm]

Anyone found a better way to re-orient a part's coordinate system since October? I read thread559-136322 but the solutions are workarounds. I was wondering if there have been any relevant updates to Solidworks since then. Btw, the only reason I want to do this is to make importing parts into Surfcam SE 2-axis easier. If anyone has advice about making the Solidworks to Surfcam SE 2-axis translation easier I would really appreciate it.

Chris Montgomery
Mechanical Engineer

 

[SBaugh]

Move/copy body is the only way to change the location of the body within the part itself. it will affect to origin or the orientation of the views.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[J-C]

Are you exporting the model out of Solidworks or just using Surfcam to read the native solidworks file?

If you are export out of Solidworks to a neutral file format, you can create a coordinate system (reference geoemetry), then when "Save As" to a neutral format, select "Options" and change the coordinate system to the one you created.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2

 

[SBaugh]

Correction "it will affect to origin or the orientation of the views."

Should be "it will not affect the origin or the orientation of the views.

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376