AutoCAD Inventor :: Create Wheel That Can Rotate About Horizontal Axis?

Dec 2, 2011

I am trying to create a wheel that can be rotate about the horizontal axis.  It should have a hole for axle to fit through.  However, when I try to do this it will not let me select the horizontal axis to rotate about.  I also tried to rotate about a center line that I created but it wouldn't do that either..

Windows 7 64-bit (Service Pack 1)
3.40 GHz Quad Core processor w/ Hyperthreading
8GB Ram
ATI Radeon HD 6450 1GB Ram

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I want to, as a simple example, rotate the UCS around the Z-axis from the end of one pipe to the end of the other.

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TL;DR

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