About Planes

About Planes

About Planes

 

With RevWorks, you can create planes irrespective of existing geometry or in relationship to existing planes and existing geometry in SOLIDWORKS. RevWorks digitizes all 2D feature data onto SOLIDWORKS sketch planes. Therefore, verify that the plane you want to work with resides on the surface where you plan to collect data. If you digitize data off the surface where you plan to collect data, RevWorks projects data to the selected plane irrespective of how far away the data may be from the surface.

SOLIDWORKS planes have a defined origin, x-axis, and y-axis. Both SOLIDWORKS axes control the default orientation of sketch planes that you create on a plane. When using RevWorks, the position of the origin and the orientation of the axes within a plane are not important. Data collected from a part always shows up in proper relationship to other digitized components no matter how you set the origin and axes within a plane. The only impact on RevWorks is in the display of position coordinates on the RevWorks toolbar.

RevWorks allows you to create six kinds of planes:

  • Point Planes – Through any three or more digitized points.

  • Parallel Planes – Through a point relative to an existing plane or planar faces.

  • Offsets Planes – Through a point relative to a predefined SOLIDWORKS plane.

  • Perpendicular Planes – Through a point perpendicular to a SOLIDWORKS curve.

  • Radial Planes – Through a point relative to a selected SOLIDWORKS line or axis.

  • View Planes – Through a point relative to the current SOLIDWORKS model view.

You can create planes relative to other planes or relative to planar part faces.

To better familiarize yourself with the use of planes, read the following topics:

  1. Creating View Planes
  1. Using Existing Planes

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