How to rotate a sketch element ?

jean_didier

I'm trying to rotate a square and i can not find a rotate tool, am I missing something ?
Thanks,

abefeldman

@Jean-Didier - We don't yet have a dedicated rotation tool for sketching, but you can "Show Constraints" in the sketch dialog and remove the horizontal and vertical constraints in your rectangular feature to allow it to rotate.  I'll add your request to the improvement.

3dcad

Here's a workaround:

1. Draw rectangle
2. Tick show constraints and delete Horizontal or Vertical constraints that are automatically added to rectangles
3. Dimension the plane to rectangle, it should show angle dimension of 90 degree. If dimension is greyed out, check possible over constraining and RMB click dimension and change to driving

Images have extra line, you can just omit that.

abefeldman

@Jean-Didier - We don't yet have a dedicated rotation tool for sketching, but you can "Show Constraints" in the sketch dialog and remove the horizontal and vertical constraints in your rectangular feature to allow it to rotate.  I'll add your request to the improvement.

3dcad

Here's a workaround:

1. Draw rectangle
2. Tick show constraints and delete Horizontal or Vertical constraints that are automatically added to rectangles
3. Dimension the plane to rectangle, it should show angle dimension of 90 degree. If dimension is greyed out, check possible over constraining and RMB click dimension and change to driving

Images have extra line, you can just omit that.

david_z

There's an easier workaround: Use the circular pattern tool to create an instance of the shape at the angle you want. You will have to create extra instances of the shape at angles you don't want, temporarily. Apply the circular pattern and simply select and delete all instances of the shape which are not at the correct angle. This worked well for me on a shape imported from a DXF which was not fully constrained and would not work with the method described above. It also does not require removing any constraints.

3dcad

abefeldman said:

..We don't yet have a dedicated rotation tool for sketching..

Today, we do have dedicated transform / rotation tool for sketch - hopefully soon it will get numeric movements and snaps to existing geometry.

wally

Is this rotation tool available yet?

Paul_J_Premakumar

Hi Wally, 

 You can use the sketch transformation tool : https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/transform-sketch.htm