Copy entities from plane to plane but pasted result is mirror of original

kurt_conyngham

Hello,

I drew a few sketches on the face of an extruded rectangle but that idea was restraining me and now i want to copy the sketches from the rectangle face into their own plane.  I have done one side with success but when I copy and paste the other side it pastes in as a mirror of the original, 
I'm not sure if I mirrored it originally somehow but now all my entities are flipped horizontally and I cant see any easy way of flipping the whole sketch plane horizontally.

any ideas?

thanks,

NeilCooke

A face has one side (pointing outwards from the solid) and a plane has two, so your pasted sketch is on a plane whose normal is pointing in the opposite direction. Edit the plane and flip the direction. 

robert_morris

I'm curious about this as well since I've had this happen before too.

How do you flip the normal of a plane?
The only direction option I see when select Edit Plane is to flip the offset direction and if I create the plane using something like 'Plane and Point', there are no options.

NeilCooke

Sorry yes you are right (I was thinking about a FeatureScript option). If you offset from the standard planes the new plane normal will point in the same direction. If you offset from a face it will point in the same direction as the face. 

kurt_conyngham

NeilCooke said:

A face has one side (pointing outwards from the solid) and a plane has two, so your pasted sketch is on a plane whose normal is pointing in the opposite direction. Edit the plane and flip the direction. 

So when i click on a new plane and press sketch to create a new sketch I can do this from either side of the plane, so i need to create a new sketch looking at the plane from the opposite side to which I did before.
thanks,