[gromit68]

I have a simple form, essentially a rectangular pocket with radiused corners drawn normal to the X/Y plane. Extruded down, (z minus).

I'd like to rotate this pocket around X axis so that the bottom of the pocket is sloped. I'm not concerned with the resulting change to the adjacent sides, they could have the same slope, or not, It is unimportant to my project.

When using bobcad v21, I just select the geometry, and command rotate, specify an axis and an angle. Done.

I'm not having the same luck with alibre. An alibre tech gave a friend of mine a description of how to do this, involving drawing a new form next to the existing one, extruding the new form with draft, and constraining the new form to original one.

Is it not possible to simply rotate an element/solid in relationship to the drawing?

thoughts, comments?

[LYN BYRD]

I AM ALSO USING ALIBRE, I AM ALSO USED TO JUST MANIPULATING THE DRAWING THAT I ALREADY HAVE. I THINK ALIBRE HAS TO DO THIS BECAUSE OF THE PARAMETRIC ASPECT OF THEIR SOFTWARE. USED CADKEY AND BOBCAD FOR YEARS. THE NEW WAY OF THINKING TAKES A LITTLE GETTING USED TO.

[MichaelHenry]

Not sure if this will answer the question or not, but in general a revolved sketch must not cross the axis of rotation. Does that help at all?

If not, you might try uploading a sample file.

Mike

[bostosh]

I still use Cadkey 19
It just plain works good