I have a sketch which is in a plane that is at an odd angle incline (horizontal in one direction, but at an angle in the other direction). I want to rotate the sketch plane so it is horizontal. I can use the measure tool to see the angle (with a bunch of decimals), and I could rotate by the negati…

one way to do it: draw a square on the arbitrary plane make a solid of this and the sketch in question make another cube on preferred base plane select all on the arbitrary plane and then Align choose an edge on both solid cubes now Project the sketch on base plane …not perfect but as you loo…

Hi Peter Select the sketch in the items list on the left. Then press ‘M’ on the keyboard if that is still your short cut for MOVE. Then drag or rotate the whole sketch with the Move & Rotate symbols, just like moving any object. see picture. Have fun, Arron [Rotate&move_Sketch]

But when I rotate like that, it rotates in 5° increments, and it does not snap to horizontal. Is there some way to force it to snap to horizontal (even though the starting angle is something like 16.12345°)

[image] BKE: now Project the sketch on base plane If I project from the inclined plane to the horizontal plane, wont that result in a squashed result? Ie, a square would become a rectangle?

What BKE is describing this. [image] Use Align Tool [image] Use Project Tool to recreate the sketch. [image] If we could copy and paste angles within the app we wouldn’t need to do this. We don’t have rotation snap based on main XYZ origin, but the starting rotation point of the model or s…

OK, so align the body first. Yes, that works fine. Hopefully some way to align a sketch plane will happen at some point. Or snapping to horizontal/vertical perhaps. Thanks Thanks.

Actually I’m wrong there is a way! I just remembered how I used to do it Solidworks. History Tree is so long I always avoided using it. Select your Sketch and check your Sketch History. You can change planes. [image] This will affect your history downstream, extruded parts, etc… they will also …

That works well. [image] SCALEMODEL: This will affect your history downstream, extruded parts, etc… they will also change orientation. This didn’t matter to me since my objective was to get DXFs that I could laser cut from my various parts, and the best method I’ve found so far (including st…

Thats a feature other have requested as well. You could use the Drawing feature in shaper to export flat sides. You could also use a unfold app like this one https://www.unfolder.app/ Its for papercraft but for getting flat dxf dimensions/math is the same and app is cheap. [image]

[image] SCALEMODEL: You could use the Drawing feature in shaper to export flat sides. I think that is what I tried and I found it extremely fiddly to get just the relevant face exported as a DXF. Export Face as DXF would definitely massively improve the workflow, but I pretty much have the s…

The rotate tool is not limited to 5 degree steps. You can type in what angle you want exactly, just click on the rotate angle number, then enter the angle. Most of the time I just rotate to horizontal, then project on to a new plane on the axis. I do this quite often as I regularly export DXF fil…

How can I rotate an inclined sketch plane to horizontal?

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How can I rotate an inclined sketch plane to horizontal?

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