how to rotate part

[djstar]

Hi, i am very new to using solid works and this is the first peice of cad software i have used. i have only been using it for a couple of days.I have drawn a part but some how i have rotated it and when i click the view orientation at the top of the screen the part is skewed and not square on the screen. i have attached a screen shot to show what i mean, any help would be great because im going around in circles.

 

any help would truely be appreciated.

[JD Mather]

Edit Sketch1 and apply a horizontal constraint as appropriate.

zip and attach your sldprt here.

[shift1313]

dj go through my references on sketching to understand dims and relations.

 

http://www.solidworkslessons.info/#!__sketching-dims-and-relations

[djstar]

Hi, thanks for the replys guys, theyve helped alot and ive managed to sort it, now that ive sorted that one ive managed to create another one some how.

 

im not sure if i should start a new post so i apologise if i should.

 

I use to be able to click sketch, line then draw a triangle and the last line use to snap to the start point of the first line, then id click extrude and it would extrude a triangle.

 

But now when i try drawing a trinagle none of the points snap to each other and it won let me extrude the shape. im trying to draw some irregular shapes and extrude them which was fine the other day but i have semed to have changed some setting.

[JD Mather]

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