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Create additional types of workplanes

Create additional types of workplanes - Inventor Tutorial

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Create additional types of workplanes

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- Now that you've seen how to create off-set work planes, let's look at a few different types. On the screen you can see I have work planes dot i p t open. And we can begin by returning to the 3D model tab under the work features panel and selecting the plane drop down. Again, there's many different options here and we want to look at parallel to a plane through a point. What's important here is that depending on the type of work plane you select, parallel to a plane through a point for example, Inventor will automatically limit the type of selections you can make on the 3D model. For example, if I hover over the model, you can see that planes are highlighted and points at end points or mid points are highlighted, but no edges are highlighted because of the specific type of plane we're trying to create parallel to a plane through a point. We're going to go ahead and start by clicking this angled face or plane and now you…

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