Is there a way to reset the primary axes of an assembly?

trip_allen
trip_allen Member Posts: 5 ✭✭
in Community Support
I built a complicated assembly around a part which was facing the wrong direction. Can I change the "front" and the other faces around now?
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  • TimRice
    TimRice Member, Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 315 image
    If you are in a part studio, you could use the Transform feature along with mate connectors to move the part. However, depending on how you modeled the assembly, you may run into broken references if you were to flip the part. If you can share a link to the document we could take a look.
    Tim Rice | User Experience | Support 
    Onshape, Inc.
  • carl_von_ayres
    carl_von_ayres Member Posts: 16 ✭✭
    Hi, in a assembly you can reorientate your base part [and hence the parts constrained against it] by 1) select a face

    2) move centre to a referance point, right click and select move to origin


    3) left click on a axis and click align with z, finally you can use the three rotation handles to select the desired angle you want. Finally fix the point when you have the face you want on the front plane.


    This is the way shown by onshape and works well once you get to gribs with it, to begin with i would simple use a fasten mate between the base part and the origin and align from there.

    It would be nice to have a option in the view to make current view normal.

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  • billy2
    billy2 Member, OS Professional, Mentor, Developers, User Group Leader Posts: 2,206 PRO
    edited January 2017
    You can add it to another assembly correctly and stop using the errant one.

    I find not having planes in an assembly confusing. 
    -insert your grounded parts 1st and fix'm
    -add a mate connector to the origin 1st thing (Lou's hint) and build to it

    Is this why things are backwards?


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