Can Someone Help Me with AutoCAD?

Factual Questions
1

Draw a circle, radius 5, at 0,0,0. Then extrude that circle 10 units high, so now you have a cylinder, radius 5 and height 10 units, at 0,0,0. Now, I need to rotate the entire cylinder so that the centerline of the cylinder makes an angle with the y axis of 60 degrees. How do I do this?

2

check out the very useful discussion groups:

http://discussion.autodesk.com/index2.jspa?categoryID=8

your question would belong in the “drafting techniques” group.

3

I have already looked at the AutoDesk Site. They are of questionable help at best. Anyone else want to take a stab at this?

4

I imagine you’re looking top down on the cylinder along the Z-axis? Just change the plane of view, say, to the south-west isometric view then use the rotate command, snap the base point to 0,0 and rotate it 30 degrees.

5

After changing the plane of view, (I used the ddvpoint command,) the rotate command only rotates the cylinder in the x-y plane, I need to rotate it in the x-z plane, so how do i do that?

6

Easiest way is to fllip the UCS over to the ‘X’ axis first then just use the standard rotate tool. (> = return or right mouse click)

UCS > X > 90 <rtn>
<select item to rotate>
R > 60 <rtn>

This will rotate the item in the standard way only with respect to the ‘Y’ axis. (Don’t forget to return to the original UCS though.)

7

Thanks Aro,

Your suggestion worked perfectly. Thanks again

Ficer67

8

There’s also, oddly enough, a rotate3d command, which allow you to rotate any selection set around any of these options: [Object/Last/View/Xaxis/Yaxis/Zaxis/2points]. All you really needed to do was to rotate your cylinder about the y-axis.

The above options came from the command line of AutoCAD 2002. Release 14 is identical. I assume the new 2005 will be quite similar, too. I don’t know what might be available in the various flavors of AutoCAD LT.