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Devon T. Sowell · 1 year ago

Hi Josh-

Great tip, thanks for sharing.

Devon
Dale Dunn · 1 year ago

This can be done even more quickly... Use a single line, with one end coincident to the curved face, and the line perpendicular to the curved face. Once that's done, you can create a plane entity in the 3DSketch, or exit the sketch and create a reference plane on the end of the line.
Chris · 1 year ago

I've done both ways. The faster way is the one you've suggested Dale but I've had issues where I wanted more control over the feature and the video solution allows for a few more degrees of control.
Josh · 1 year ago

Cool Chris, nice to see that someone else has tried this out. If I'm not able to do something with the typical sketches or have a lot of extra reference features, I'll try it out with 3D sketches. Comes in handy for sketch patterns as well as Component Patterns in assemblies.
Chris Jackson · 1 year ago

you don't have to draw points, just draw lines in the 3d sketch. the plane dialog will let you pick the line end points.