Thanks all. I installed the latest daily on a differnet machine (framework laptop running ubuntu-20.10) and it seems to work fine, so it must be my old fbsd build. @thomas-neemann thanks, that method also worked and will be a help. I did notice a strangeness. When creating the sketch, choosing the &...

@drmacro I still can't get quite what I need. After rotation, the object is not on the plane of its original top surface. I've attached a slightly simpler version with the unneeded datum points and lines removed. CloneRotateFlip.jpg To reproduce: In tree view, select Body001 and hit spacebar to make...

As stated in the original post, draft rotate doesn't allow me to rotate about a line; at least I can't figure out how. It rotates about one of the normal axes. I can do the rotate fine; but then the object is positioned too low. The only way I can see to raise it is to specify some known increment a...

I have never figured this out... I have a multi-body part, and need to clone and then re-orient one of the bodies. The re-orientation is a double rotation, first about the Z axis, and then about a reference line. In the attached file, Body001 has been cloned as Body002. Body002 has been rotated 90 d...

It also does not make it possible to select any of the original axes. Select then for what? Sketch contains finite edges and points. Sketch axes are not actually part of the sketch as such. You can not have infinite lines so infinite lines can not be inserted as external geometry. You can create a ...

Attachment generates a point and direction vector. Which point of the intersection line should be selected as the attachment point? Ah, I see. Throwing out a thought, how about the origin of the first plane selected? That would give the user a bit of control over where it is located. Direction coul...

Thanks, that's more or less what I did to get the task accomplished. But why can't I create a datum line from the intersection of two planes? Shouldn't that be possible?

Thanks, I was unaware of the view section feature. However, using it does not solve the problem. It removes the part of objects in front of the sketch plane, but does not allow one to select features *behind* the plane. It also does not make it possible to select any of the original axes. Making the...

Also a related question: How is the origin of a Datum Plane determined? I thought it was somehow related to the center of mass of the points used to create the plane, but in the example provided that is not the case -- the plane was created by selecting the two vertical lines at the ends of the soli...

If I create a sketch on a datum plane, why can't I select / create an external reference to any of the original x- y- or z- axes? Related question: When editing a sketch on a datum plane, why can't I select features on the back side of the datum plane if it is visible? I have to "turn the sketc...