Sketch rotation with Placement does not work!

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mr_cg
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Sketch rotation with Placement does not work!

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I need to ratate (180°) one Sketch which is aligned to solid phase.
In the preview i need to select Axis=X and Angel=-90° in order to get the sketch rotated as needed.
Everything seems to be fine but when i try to apply the changes (click "Apply" or "OK") the change is not done and all the changes got lost.

Hot to make the changes permanent?
To me it looks like a bug?
I have version 0.16 Rev 6706, Win10 64bit.



Thanks for your help.
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1. Initial situation
1. Initial situation
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2. In preview everything ok
2. In preview everything ok
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3. Changes cannot be applied permanent
3. Changes cannot be applied permanent
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Re: Sketch rotation with Placement does not work!

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Hi, when a sketch is attached to a face it can not be moved. In that case you have to move the shape in the sketch
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Re: Sketch rotation with Placement does not work!

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Here is the new way to deal with this kind of help requests: give a pointer to the top rated errors and how to avoid them!
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Re: Sketch rotation with Placement does not work!

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Thanks, but how to move (mirror) the shape in the sketch?
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Re: Sketch rotation with Placement does not work!

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You can mirror the last feature in the Part Design Workbench, i.e. in most cases the last pad or pocket. Or you can mirror a whole object with Part->Mirror.
If you want the sketch to be in another place you have to draw it there. The base is always the face it is attached to.
Perhaps we can provide much better help if we know what you actually want to model, perhaps you can provide a link to a picture of a similar object or a scanned hand drawing.
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Re: Sketch rotation with Placement does not work!

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I would like to have the sketch "Sketch_Sockelleiste_Aussen_Mirrored" aligned as shown in the picture.
Attached also the freecad file (dropbox).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/czm5ch484x8mx ... FCStd?dl=0

Many thanks for your help.
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... result should look like this.
... result should look like this.
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Re: Sketch rotation with Placement does not work!

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I still have no idea what you want to achieve in the very end, but I'm pretty sure it is not only the alignment of the sketch. Can you tell us what the final result will approximately look like?
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Re: Sketch rotation with Placement does not work!

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I have modified your model so that the sketch in question is at the position I guessed from your image.

There are some more comments to be made on your sketching:
- You should fully constrain your sketches,
- omit absolute measures if possible, use geometric constraints instead. I changed your Sketch_Sockelleiste_Aussen, please have a look at it, especially the right upper corner with the circle.
- I deleted the construction lines, they seemed of no use.
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