PartDesign Plane

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PartDesign Plane

Menu location
PartDesign → Create a datum plane
Workbenches
PartDesign, Complete
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
-
See also
None

Description

It is now possible to create datum planes/lines/points and attach them to features. Those datums can be used as basis for sketches or as revolution axis etc. There are a multitude of attachment possibilities for datums, try them out

Use

  1. Click on in the toolbar, or choose PartDesign Create a datum plane from the main menu,
  2. set options and parameters,
  3. click OK.

Options

Plane parameters

This is an example of Datum Plane, created by default, where

  • Map mode: deactivated
  • Angle: 45°
  • Axis: y=1
  • Position: x=-10

File:DatumPlane-esempio1.png

You can now use this plan as a plan to build a sketch:

  1. Select the Datum plane
  2. Click New sketch

File:DatumPlane-SketchOnDatumPlane1.png

You can change the plane orientation as you want, and the sketch follows him:

File:DatumPlane-SketchOnDatumPlane2.png

Also, by right-clicking on Datum Plane in the structure you can always access the Edit Datum Plane menu, and decide to attack the plane to an object.

There are numerous options available. See User:DeepSOIC.

Limitations

Scripts

Links

Notes

Available since FreeCAD v 0.17.