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How can I turn my part upside-down?
going_along
Member Posts: 29 ✭✭
Cannot seem to get there with Translate/Rotate, probably because I cannot get the rotate axis selection right.
It needs to be the other way up for printing and I don't want to go through the process of rebuilding it from scratch.
By rotate I mean top to bottom about the middle.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/70dc800957408e1d9f38d1f2/w/d5e313b0859fb2b63c67ab5e/e/0d72d9a19fa9ca1a3cc43a9b
ps: This is my first ever question.
It needs to be the other way up for printing and I don't want to go through the process of rebuilding it from scratch.
By rotate I mean top to bottom about the middle.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/70dc800957408e1d9f38d1f2/w/d5e313b0859fb2b63c67ab5e/e/0d72d9a19fa9ca1a3cc43a9b
ps: This is my first ever question.
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Jake_Rosenfeld
Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 1,646 
Hi @going_along
Great question! I've done it two ways for you here:- Create a mid plane between the top and the bottom, sketch the desired rotation axis, and rotate 180 degrees
- Create mate connectors on the top and bottom of the part and used "Transform by mate connectors"
The best way to explore what I've done here is to copy my document and poke around at the features I've created.
https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/mateconnector.htm
https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/cplane.htm
https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/transform.htm
Jake Rosenfeld - Modeling Team5
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Great question! I've done it two ways for you here:
- Create a mid plane between the top and the bottom, sketch the desired rotation axis, and rotate 180 degrees
- Create mate connectors on the top and bottom of the part and used "Transform by mate connectors"
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/a090085360d3732d04ce4c80/w/4c491b286d160db57a3642c9/e/5a37b86e015b101fdcd569d5The best way to explore what I've done here is to copy my document and poke around at the features I've created.
https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/mateconnector.htm
https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/cplane.htm
https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/transform.htm
You can always go back to a previous state of your document with our "Restore" functionality:
https://www.onshape.com/videos/restore
It sounds like the problem you're facing is that "Copy part" is checked in the transform feature. If you uncheck that it won't copy your part while it does the rotation. If that's not the case please post a link with an example of what you're seeing.