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U225X / ENGINEERING UNWARRANTED

SOLIDWORKS Rotation Macro

Public record / CHAT-0351 / Revision EXPORT-03

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A conversation-specific public summary of solidworks rotation macro, distilled from the supplied export. The detailed excerpts remain available in the released note file.

STATUSRECOVERED / SPECIFIC NOTECLASSIFICATIONSYSMATERIALCHAT EXPORT / BUILD & TOOLSDATE2026.04.15

TECHNICAL NOTES

Conversation-specific knowledge extracted from the solidworks rotation macro discussion.

EXTRACTED KNOWLEDGE / HOW-TO FROM CONVERSATION

QUESTION / CONTEXT: is there a way to precisly roate this view so it looks like the red boxc, if not can we write a macro that works like this, i select a line of the part in the view and it roates it this is solid works 2025

  1. you click one straight line or visible linear edge in the drawing view
  2. run the macro
  3. it rotates that view so the selected line becomes exactly horizontal
  4. optional: you can enter `90` if you want that line vertical instead
  5. Use this in SOLIDWORKS 2025 VBA macro:
  6. Set swApp = Application.SldWorks
  7. Set swModel = swApp.ActiveDoc
  8. Set swMathUtil = swApp.GetMathUtility

SPECIFICATION

SourceSupplied ChatGPT export
CategoryBuild & Tools
Conversation6 user turns / 10 assistant turns
Attachments47 references detected
Public detailExtracted knowledge + excerpts

DEVELOPMENT HISTORY

2026.04.15EXPORT-04Matched to the supplied export; key guidance is surfaced separately and the raw transcript remains unpublished.