Dumb Question From A Beginner! Flip a Disk on its Face?

julian_frost

Excuse the rudimentary question, but I can't find the solution...

I have a model, which is an 80mm diameter, 5mm thick disk. I designed it with text on the top of the disk.
I want to flip the disk upside down so that the text is on the bottom and the bottom of the disk is on top.

I see the transform button, but I can't work out how to use it to flip a disk!

Someone, please help me out!

Thanks!

julian_frost

This video helped me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WHwSugwIUc

Matt_Shields

There are no dumb questions 

Not 100% sure what you need, but one solution might be to move the sketch that the text is on to the bottom face.  

When you edit a sketch, you can see the "Sketch plane" selection box.  Click the "x" to clear the selection and select the bottom face.  That might be what you are looking for?

_anton

To provide some context to Matt's response, one rarely transforms parts in parametric CAD. It's good practice to design them at the final size (and, usually, orientation). If you need to change some aspect of the part, change the feature(s) that created it.

julian_frost

Nevermind... I found a video that helped...

On the base sketch, I added a construction line running through the middle of the sketch.
The last actions on my model were to click Transform, choose all the parts of the model, Rotate, 180-degrees, and select the construction line added earlier. Then I added another transform, this time "Translate XYZ" and moved the Z-axis up by the depth of my model to bring it back up above the Top Plane.

This video helped me achieve what I wanted to do. After flipping the coin onto the other face, I had to do another Transition to raise the model up, onto the Top Plane again. I guess I could have drawn the construction line at the top of the extrusion, level with the top edge and that would have reduced the number of transitions by one!

julian_frost

This video helped me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WHwSugwIUc

nick_papageorge073

I'm glad you got it sorted out. That said, if the model is literally just a disk with text on one side, it would only take a minute to move the text sketch to the other side. An easy fix.

Also to double check something, as your question is not that common... Are you coming from Fusion by chance where the "assembly" and "part design" is in the same place? If so, OS has them separated, and it would not matter at all if your part was "drawn" upside down. You would simply orient it the way you want it when placing it inside the assembly.

julian_frost

Hi. Thanks for your reply. Actually, the disk is not that simple. It has embedded text from a graphic that is several layers 'deep" into the desk. The text is extruded, as is the base material around the text, if that makes sense.

OnShape is my first design software. I really haven't delved into Assemblies yet. I guess that's something I will have to start experimenting with.

nick_papageorge073

julian_frost said:

Hi. Thanks for your reply. Actually, the disk is not that simple. It has embedded text from a graphic that is several layers 'deep" into the desk. The text is extruded, as is the base material around the text, if that makes sense.

OnShape is my first design software. I really haven't delved into Assemblies yet. I guess that's something I will have to start experimenting with.

Awesome. Also an fyi, you can copy/paste the link to your document in the forums for future questions. Members will open it up, and will often model in a fix for you.