Dialog: Plane

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Dialog: Plane

Plane

See also:

Model Editor > Add Plane

Mechanism-Editor > Add Plane

You can add Planes to:

•Planes (in the Model-Editor and Mechanism-Editors)

•Lines (in Mechanism-Editors only)

You add Planes to define the layout of your machine.

The Plane dialog opens when you do the Add Plane command and when you later edit a Plane.

tog_minusHow to open the Plane dialog-box
Edit Plane

Edit Plane

The Plane dialog opens when you start the Add Plane command.

To open the Plane dialog to edit a Plane that you have added to the model:

1.Right-click a Plane in the Assembly-Tree

2.Click Edit-element in the shortcut menu

OR

1.See How to Open a dialog

Note:

You cannot edit the Front, Top, or Right planes.

The Plane dialog is now open.

Plane dialog

The Plane dialog has two formats, which you can identify by the Plane Definition parameter.

The format is a function of the element you select to add the new Plane.

Click to exapand /collapse FORMAT 1: Offset from Plane

The Plane Definition is “Offset from Plane”.
MD-Dialog-AddPlane-Offset

Red-14-1b New Plane: Plane6

Plane Parameters

Red-14-2 Plane Definition: Offset from Plane (not easy to see as  Offset from Plane )

The new Plane is parallel and along the Z-axis of the Plane you select.

Red-14-4 Element box (bottom of dialog): the Plane you select.

Parameter to edit:

Red-14-3 Distance to New Plane

The distance from the Plane you select (e.g. from FrontRed-14-4 to the new PlaneRed-14-1b).
New Plane in the Graphic-Area

New Plane in the Graphic-Area

Example:

In the image, the new PlaneRed-14-2 is offset along the Z-axis of PlaneRed-14-1b by the distance equal to Distance to new Plane.

 
Click to exapand /collapseFORMAT 2: Angle from Line

The Plane Definition is “Angle from Plane”.
MD-DIALOG-PLANE-LINE

Red-14-1b New Plane: Plane5

Plane Parameters

Red-14-2 Plane Definition: Angle from Line (not easy to see as  Angle from Line )

Red-14-4 Element box (bottom of dialog): the Line you select, and the Plane to which the Line is a grand-child?

Parameters to edit:

Red-14-5 Move Plane to end-Point

Enable to move the origin of the new Plane from the start-Point to the end-Point of the Line that is in Element boxRed-14-4.

The X-axis of the new Plane is now from the end-Point to the start-Point of the Line.

Usually, do not enable. However, you must enable Move Plane to End-Point to add a Bevel Gear-Pair.

Red-14-3 Rotational Axes

•Rotate around X-axis : Rotate the new Plane around the X-axis direction of the Line

•Rotate around Y-axis : Rotate the new Plane around the Y-axis direction of the Line

•Rotate around Z-axis : Rotate the new Plane around the Z-axis direction of the Line
MD-ADD-PPLANE2LINE-MECH-C

Example

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Notes:

When you select a Line (Format 2) :

The Origin of the new Plane is:

•at the Start-Point of the Line, or

•at the end-Point of the Line, if you enable Move Plane to end-Point in the Plane dialog.

The default +ve X-axis of the new Plane is:

•from the start-Point to the end-Point of the Line, or

•from the end-Point to the start-Point of the Line, if you enable Move Plane to end-Point.

Related topics

Model toolbar > Add Plane (in the Model-Editor tab)

Model toolbar > Add Plane (in a Mechanism-Editor tab)

How to open a dialog

How to edit a parameter