Project: HiCAD 3-D

Define Sketch Plane

Sketch > New > ProcPlane

The creation of a planar sketch takes place in the current sketch plane. This sketch plane is placed in the active processing plane or - if no processing plane is available - in the XY-plane of the active coordinate system. Whether a sketch plane will be automatically queried, or automatically determined whenever a new sketch is created can be influenced via the Novice configuration function at Drawings > Extras (see also Planar Sketch).

Use the Set new processing plane, via surface or 2 edges to define a new plane by using arbitrary points edges, surfaces or planes. Furthermore, you can right-click to open a context menu with further functions:

The procedure is the same as for the creation of processing planes.

Clicking opens a menu with further functions for sketch planes:

	Sketch coordinate system, with new origin Changes the origin of the local coordinate system that was created automatically. The function does not affect the position or the representation of the sketch plane, but only point options. Example
	Rotate sketch coordinate system Rotates the sketch plane by specification of a rotation angle. The local coordinate system as well as the representation of the plane frame are also rotated during the process. Example
	Delete plane, Individual Deletes individual, identified sketch planes.
	Delete plane, Active plane Deletes only the currently active sketch plane.
	Delete plane, All inactive Deletes all inactive sketch planes.
	Delete plane, All Deletes all sketch planes in the drawing.

Important!

• Sketch planes are no processing planes!
  This means in particular that you cannot apply the functions of the Processing planes menu to sketch planes. The sketch plane is directly linked to the geometry of the corresponding sketch and cannot be deleted separately!
• These functions are only available for planar sketches.

Working with Sketches (3-D) • Sketch Functions (3-D)