David Thomas Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 is there some clever way to drop a construction plane onto the centre of a part. For example I imported some ACIS, of a simple flange, and I want to replace it with an intellishape, so I go to my spin tool and try to drop the constrution plane onto the centre but it alway snaps on at a funny angle. Holding control down does not help. The same thing happens when I drop my hole bolt circle onto this spun shape , I struggle to attached and align it with the centre of the part, (in the first instance, the remaining procedure is two or three orientations with the Triball.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary OConnor Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Not really an easy way for the Intellishape commands unless the center point exists or using the TriBall. If the part has a circular edge, you can drop from the Catalog holding the shift-key and it will drop to the center of the edge. Maybe that would be the best way. Cary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Twining Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 ...may be too late, but your imported part sounds to me like it is at an angle to the IronCAD WCS. It may save you some time if you use the Triball to orient your imported part to the global coordinate system before you start re-creating the various items... that way all the future items that you drop in from IronCAD won't be "cocky-walked". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Andersson Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 David, CTRL will not replace the target part if the dragged object is a Intellishape. It will if the catalog object is a part. You can drag out your Intellishape to the scene, not hitting any other part. Then select it as a part and drag it back in. Now you can use CTRL drop, to replace, if that is what you want to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest svangeldern Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 David, I drag a block onto the scene before I try to spin a shape like you describe. After dropping the spin plane on the part I use the faces of the block and "Triball/Axis/perpendicular to face" sequence to orient the plane. After I finish the spin I delete the block. Steve PS Mike...Merriam-Webster defines "cocky-walked" as a means to get home from the pub without a designated driver. There was no reference to the IC WCS in their definition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Thomas Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 thanks for all the input, holding shift down when I drop the hole bolt circle certainly works, but this does not seem to work for the construction plane. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Twining Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 PS Mike...Merriam-Webster defines "cocky-walked" as a means to get home from the pub without a designated driver. There was no reference to the IC WCS in their definition. 13008[/snapback] Hahaha! Well, I guess I'll have to have a little talk with my father then for teaching it too me. I assume now you are going to tell me that "dohicky" and "thing-a-ma-bob" aren't technical terms for IronCAD elements either....maybe your dictionary is old? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmccall Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 some time ago I wrote this thread.. somewhat similar case.. http://www.ironcad.com/support/community/i...=1330&hl=center Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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