Modifing C'Plane

[kathy]

Hello Everyone!

I have a program where I've imported in a similar program's job setup. My imported SETUP A is at 0,0,0, C'plane #1. The imported SETUP B (0,0,1.32) is using C'plane #4. The rotation form top to bottom is 180 degrees about the Y Axis. HOWEVER--- I would like to modify the rotation to be 180 degrees about the X Axis!. How do I modify the imported SETUP B C'plane?

Thanks for the help,

Kathy

(am I stuck having to delete the existing C'Plane and re-creating in the rotation I need???)

[Charles Davis]

Not sure if I really understand what you want, but have you tried Modify, Xform, Between Vws?

[kathy]

Charles,

Where is Modify, xform, between views? My modify dosn;t show it on the menu. V8.1.1.

I don't want to move or change geometry entities, I want the #4 C'Plane to show a different rotation. Right now, if I set gview to SETUP B', the part is turned over, 'fliped' from right to left. I would like to 'flip' the part from top to bottom using the C'plane.!

Thanks, Kathy

[cadcam]

what you have a boat now you want plans?

[Simtech]

Kathy,

It's Xform --> Translate --> Between vws

This will move/copy the geometry from one cplane to another.

Very efficient when some CAD systems use assembly origin to locate parts in space and send them off to machine shops for manufacturing.

Luc

[kathy]

Hello,

Simtech, there's somthing here I'm not understanding..?? I don't want to move my geometry; I want to re-define my C'plane. How will translating my geometry do that?

Thanks, Kathy

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[gstephens]

Kathy:

First of all, views 1-8 are pre-defined (you can't change them). Second, there is currently no way to "renumber" the views (change view # 37 to view #9 for instance).

You can "combine views" to compact the number of cplanes defined, but you can't really organize them (not 'till v9 at least).

The only way of getting what [i think] you want is to start from view #4 and go to cplane-rotate-about Z, put in the angle, and save it. This creates a new view number (the next unused one). You can then go to cplane-next menu-save named, and give the view a name that you can pull up from anywhere (including importing from another file).

I know that you probably know most of this already, but I figured I'd go through everything just in case others didn't.

[ 08-17-2001: Message edited by: gstephens ]

[Bill]

I read your question yesterday Kathy and I would have said what gstephens just said. I thought what you were getting at was re-defining the c/plane #4 which I didn't know how to do. And apparently you can't, but I usually use stephens trick.

[kathy]

I ended up deleting my orignal SETUP B C'plane (based on C'plane #4 rotation) and re-created the C'plane I wanted. The newSETUP B I created is based on C'plane rotation #9!

I know how to modify a user defined C'plane's orientation, I just thought there was a way to modify the rotation (that I had missed)!

Thanks, Kathy