Construction Plane

Creates a construction plane, i.e. a drawing aids similar to a local reference grid. You can activate only one construction plane at a time, but you can have an unlimited number of construction planes in your scene.

Construction Planes can be saved, deleted, named, moved, rotated, and aligned just like any other object.

How to use

1. Click the Construction Plane icon or choose the Tools > CPlanes > Construction Plane command.

2. The program console prompts Local axes origin.

3. Locate axes origin of the plane following one of the two methods:

a) Click and drag in any view and release the mouse button to confirm placement;

b) Input the XYZ coordinates in the console and press Enter to confirm. If you press Enter without typing any value, the axes origin of the curve will be placed in correspondence of the XYZ origin.

4. Once you have created a construction plane, you can make it active by pressing the Make active button in the Modeling Tool panel, where you can also modify its dimensions.

Options

Make active

To activate the selected construction plane as the construction grid.

Modeling Tool panel. Just press the Replace button.

X extent

To change width in the X direction of the construction plane.

Modeling Tool panel. Set the value either by moving the slider or by typing it in the data field and pressing Enter.

Y extent

To change width in the Y direction of the construction plane.

Modeling Tool panel. Set the value either by moving the slider or by typing it in the data field and pressing Enter.