PartDesign Revolution

Introduction
This tool revolves a selected sketch or 2D object about a given axis.

For all the following explanations of this command the example sketch below will be used:

Angle
This controls the angle through which the revolution is to be formed e.g. 360° would be a full, contiguous revolution. The images in the examples section demonstrate some of the possibilities with specifying different angles.

Axis
This option specifies the axis about which the sketch is to be revolved. Setting the value of 1.00 in one of the x, y or z boxes will tell the tool to revolve the sketch about that axis. This option only recognizes values of 0.00 or 1.00, and only one of the three axis boxes may posses a value of 1.00 (think of it as an on/off switch.) The images in the examples section demonstrate scenarios where the example sketch is revolved about either the x or the y axis.

Base
This option specifies the offset in either the x, y, or z axis

Placement
Once a sketch has been revolved, it is transformed in to a revolution part. This section controls the placement of the part with respect to the coordinate system. NOTE: The following options do not affect the physical dimensions of the part (as the above did), but merely its position in space.

Angle
The Angle argument specifies the angle to be used with the axis option (below). An angle is set here, and the axis that the angle acts upon is set with the axis option. The part is rotated by the specified angle, about the specified axis. A usage example might be if you created the revolution as required, but then needed to rotate the whole part by some amount, in order to allow it to line-up with another pre-existing part.