Direct Editing - Rotate

Axel_Kollmenter

I have designed a clip on a plastic part and now I want to change the position. But now I am too lazy to draw the contour again and want to reposition the clip by the "move face". I have never used the feature for such an action. I have already looked at the tutorial in the Learningcenter, but it doesn't really get me anywhere.

The feature throws an error by itself. In addition, the 90° I want are twisted....

The clips should rotate 90° around the mateconnector and end up sitting at the position where the rectangle is located as a sketch.

sebastian_glanzner

Can you split the clip from the main part? 
Then you could use Transform to rotate the "Clip body" and use a boolean feature to merge it again.

Axel_Kollmenter

I think it was because the clip was connected to the outer wall (Coincident) and the cutout to demold was also a problem.

Axel_Kollmenter

sebastian_glanzner said:

Can you split the clip from the main part? 
Then you could use Transform to rotate the "Clip body" and use a boolean feature to merge it again.

ouh this would be a good option too. I think this should work too! Thank you

eric_pesty

Yes, I was going to suggest doing a body transform instead. The key thing to keep in mind with the "move face" is that it generally can't create or delete faces.
If you can visualize the operation with just "sliding" things around it should be ok but if anything needs to "jump" it will fail.