Use Solids menu ► Align Body for Milling to rotate and/or move a solid body to a more convenient orientation relative to the current CPL.
|
|
Use Solids menu ► Align Body for Milling to rotate and/or move a solid body to a more convenient orientation relative to the current CPL. |
The command prompts you to digitise a face, edge and point, to be used for the re-orientation.
Each digitise immediately results in the re-orientation, so you can work interactively.
Perform a finish (right-click for example) to move on to the next prompt.
Before the finish you can digitise again to change your selection.
Before the finish you can digitise the same face or edge to rotate the body (see below).
You can perform the finish without digitising if you want to skip a stage.
The prompts are:
Select Face to Define XY plane.
Click on a face to provide a vector to be aligned with the CPL's Z Axis (face normal vector for planar faces, face axis for cylindrical, conical or toroidal faces). Click the face again if you want to then invert the body (rotates 180° around the Y Axis).
Select linear edge to define CPL plane Axis.
Click on the edge that you want to be parallel with the CPL's X Axis. Click the edge again if you want to rotate the body 90° around the CPL's Z Axis.
Select point to translate to origin.
Click on the point you want to move to the CPL's origin.