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Rotate plane so that horizontal direction matches other sketches
martin_danger
Member Posts: 30 ✭
I've created a plane that this perpendicular to a line in a sketch (had to use a mate connector to achieve this). However, for the lack of a better way to describe it, the secondary axis of the plane is not horizontal. I would like it horizontal so that I can use the horizontal constraint to ensure conformity with other sketches. I can't seem to find a way to rotate the plane to do this. I tried rotating the mate connector and was surpised that I managed to rotate it to the correct orientation. But, of course, the change to the mate connector did not result in a change to the plane created from it….
Has anyone got any tips?
Document: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/5c5c7fc72c864756a9e2b7f1/w/1739ad2762a5d22700400859/e/0bc1a34d367211788ede4e2b?renderMode=0&uiState=67bd8209fd76fd6de4391655
Here is what a rectangle looks like when I apply horizontal and vertical constraints to the sides, that is, the base of the rectangle is not parallel with what the other sketches call horizontal.
Answers
Why not just sketch with the mate connector and skip the plane?
because it’s not immediately obvious that that’s possible. To help a new guy the mate connector should have a plane represent ion. But that can get cluttered with to many of those, I’m sure.