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Question asked by Nathan B on Jul 1, 2009
Latest reply on Nov 7, 2013 by Wim Zaag

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Hi, forgive my ignorance as I'm not familiar with SolidWorks at all but I'm hoping someone may be able help out with a simple query.
I have been sent a model (.easm file) and have downloaded the free 2009 edrawing viewer to view.

My question is when you are rotating the model how do you centre the rotation around a selected part (or preferable point in space of your choosing). It is very frustrating as the centre of rotation is currently a long way away from the parts of interest.

Once again sorry if this is S.Works 101.

Thanks,
Nathan.

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Nathan B Jul 12, 2009 10:25 PM
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Hello again, can anyone help me out on this. Would make life alot easy navigating around these large files. All other viewers I have come across so far have a key that you can hit so you can select a location on the model to rotate about. Sure edrawings viewer has something similar?? Can anyone shed some light on this......?

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- Chinloo Lama @ Nathan B on Jul 15, 2009 11:46 AM
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  Hi Nathan,
  Currently, eDrawings does not support rotation about a specific part in an assembly or a specific point in space. However, you bring up a great point. This is an enhancement suggestion worthy of investigation. Thanks for bringing this up!
  For now, perhaps, you can request from the engineer who provided this file an .eprt file of the part you a interested in. Another option is if the person who provided you with the .easm file is able to create an animation in SolidWorks rotating about the point of interest for you and export that animation with the .easm file, then you will be able to run the animation in eDrawings.
  I hope this helps.
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Wim Zaag Nov 7, 2013 5:03 AM
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It was very irritating indeed.

The solution :
Select the part you want to rotate around.
RMB then hide others.
Click Normal To on the top side of the screen.
Then RMB show all.
Now it rotates around this part.
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