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Rotate assembly/view view with respect to current view.

vdevan
14-Alexandrite

Rotate assembly/view view with respect to current view.

How can i rotate model with respect to the current viewing position.

lets say i am looking at the Front view, is there a way to rotate the view 90 deg to get the top view without having to select the Top view the view orientations.

 

Note : I am used to this kind of thing in SW and it was very helpful in viewing all possible angles using just arrow keys and Shift+arrow keys. i just want to know is it possible to do in Creo.

 

Thanks in advance for your answers.

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StephenW
23-Emerald III
(To:vdevan)

Great.

For the 90° orientation, make a mapkey using dynamic orient. Go to the view tab, saved orientations, reorient, then you'll get a pop up orientation box, change the "type" to dynamic orient. Then you and key in orientation angles based on the axis you want to spin around. 

 

orient.jpg

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dschenken
21-Topaz I
(To:vdevan)

You can dynamically orient a view and chose horizontal with a value of 90 degrees.

 

If this happens often you can capture a mapkey to make this move. Or create a mapkey that selects Top.

vdevan
14-Alexandrite
(To:dschenken)

i am not an expert in creo, and I find it hard to understand ..

can you share any tutorial relating to this .. 

StephenW
23-Emerald III
(To:vdevan)

You can't use the arrow keys like that in Creo.

You can create mapkeys to do what you want.

 

The link is a youtube video on how to create mapkeys.

There are also a lot of posts on creating mapkeys in the forum, many of which deal with view orientation.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWp_ASys8ZE

Read more at, http://caddmech.blogspot.com/2017/05/how-to-make-mapkeys-in-creo.html
vdevan
14-Alexandrite
(To:StephenW)

hey Stephen, 

Thank you so much for the response.

I tried doing map keys, and could successfully create map keys.

i faced 2 problems,

1. It do not accept combination with Shift / Ctrl 

2. I still cannot figure out a way to rotate my current view,  90 deg Right or 90 deg left.

 

am not worried about the first one , i need answer for second.

Thanks in advance.

 

StephenW
23-Emerald III
(To:vdevan)

Great.

For the 90° orientation, make a mapkey using dynamic orient. Go to the view tab, saved orientations, reorient, then you'll get a pop up orientation box, change the "type" to dynamic orient. Then you and key in orientation angles based on the axis you want to spin around. 

 

orient.jpg

vdevan
14-Alexandrite
(To:StephenW)

Thank you a lot , that was helpful. 

now is it possible to use in combination with shift / ctrl ?

StephenW
23-Emerald III
(To:vdevan)

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

Your mapkey for moving to the top view could be "tv" or "TV" (lower case or caps). 

vdevan
14-Alexandrite
(To:StephenW)

thank you got it cleared

dschenken
21-Topaz I
(To:vdevan)

Mapkeys are case insensitive and can only use Function keys and printable characters, so I think arrows and control combinations are not allowed.

vdevan
14-Alexandrite
(To:dschenken)

Thank you

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