Rotates a selected flange of a sheet metal part with automatic selection of the rotation axis depending on the design intent.
Accessing the Command
command bar: smflangerotate
menu bar: Sheet Metal | Rotate Flange
toolbar: Sheet Metal | Rotate Flange
ribbon: Sheet Metal | Edit | Rotate Flange
Quad cursor menu: Sheet Metal | Rotate Flange
: SmFlangeRotate
Prompts you in the command bar:
Select a flange face to rotate: (Select the face of a flange.)
A dynamic angle field displays the angle between the selected flange and the base flange.
Press the TAB key to display the absolute rotation angle.
(Type a value in the dynamic angle field and press Enter to confirm.)
Command Options
No options.
Related Commands
SmConvert - automatically recognizes flanges, bends and lofted bends in a 3D solid.
SmExtrude - creates sheet metal part from a planar polyline by extruding it orthogonally to the plane of the polyline.
SmFlangeConnect - closes gaps between two arbitrarily oriented flanges.
SmFlangeBend - allows to bend an existing flange along a line, obeying k-factor for given bend radius.
SmFlangeEdge - creates one or more flanges to a sheet metal part by pulling one or more edges of an existing flange.
SmFlip - swaps sides of a selected flange so that reference faces are on the other geometric side of the flange.