Creating View Planes

Creating View Planes

Creating View Planes

A view plane is a plane created at a digitized depth relative to the current model view. This method of plane creation allows you to establish planes based on desirable views of your model. It is a way to easily create arbitrary planes that might otherwise be difficult to construct.

To Create a View Plane

  1. Use the SOLIDWORKS viewing tools to create the desired view of the model.

  2. From the RevWorks toolbar, select ,
    or from the RevWorks toolbar right click on any displayed Plane icon and choose View,
    or select     Plane > View from the RevWorks menu in SOLIDWORKS.

A prompt appears leading you through the data collection steps.

  1. Digitize a point at the location through which you want the view plane to pass.

RevWorks automatically creates a plane.

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