Hi, I need some help with rotating an object’s axis. In the picture below, I have an object at the center and three directional lines ending at the same end point in space. How do I rotate the cylindrical object’s axis at the center (object with blue line at center) so that the center object’s axis…

You can use a temporary surface as a reference for the rotate tool… [rotatebullet]

Cotty, Wow…nice. Thank you very much and here I am trying to stay awake since 3:30AM working on my Sketchup models…BTW, how did you do the GIF file in Sketchup. Is there a plug-in for it? Thanks again.

It’s a standalone program, I’m using ScreenToGif, but there are a lot of those programs out there.

In cases like this you can also apply the ‘Axes’ tool and combine that to ‘Copy’ (to clipboard) and ‘Paste’. With the ‘Axes’ tool align the red axis (or any of the three for that matter) to your blue line. Now select the cylindrical object (group or component) and copy it to clipboard (see standar…

A plugin solution if you have that capability is to use something like Eneroth’ s pipe along path. by adding a short line to your existing lines ( click on end of your path and use inference to trace back a shorter line on end of same path - it will turn magenta) then select that smaller end line a…

How to rotate the axis of an object to align with the projection directions

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Another option is to use Chris Fullmers Perpendicular face tool.
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How to rotate the axis of an object to align with the projection directions

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