Editing Individual Import Parts

jake_gelhard

I am currently trying to edit an imported part from SolidWorks and I need to rotate just a small portion of the part, but my issue is when I try to rotate the selected area on the part, it does not move. I have attached a photo of the selected area, I need to rotate the selected area so the part is vertical instead of horizontal.

Any advice or direction would be appreciated.

wayne_sauder

@jake_gelhard

If you want to make it premanate, you will need to split the part into two, rotate the piece (via transform) you wish to rotate, and boolean it all together again. A more ideal workflow would probably be to try to get an assembly of this part to upload and then mate things together (in an assembly tab) the way they would be in real life.

EvanReese

Since I only see 1 part in your parts list, that tells me this is all merged together. There are two approaches I'd consider:

1. Move Face - This feature has a Rotate mode. As long as you pick every single face associated with the "part" you want to move, you should be able to get those faces to rotate around the hinge axis. You may want to skim my recent video about making complex selections since there's a lot going on here. https://youtu.be/o9HyVenlLW0
2. Split and Transform - you could create surfaces to split the 1 part into 2 parts, then rotate one of them with the Transform tool

jake_gelhard

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/114119#Comment_114119

That was very helpful, Thank you

jake_gelhard

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/114118#Comment_114118

I was not aware of the Split tool thank you