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Create work planes

Create work planes - Inventor Tutorial

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Create work planes

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- [Voiceover] Now that you understand how to create offset work planes, I want to walk through how to create several other types of work planes, and explain how the creation of work planes actually functions so that you can easily create any type of work feature or work plane that you need as you continue on in your learning. The work plane tools can be found in the 3D Model tab under the Work Feature panel, here under the Plane tool. The Plane tool is a split button. The top half shows the default command and the bottom half is a drop down menu that exposes all the different types of work planes that you can create in Inventor. Here you can see the offset plane that we've already discussed. Below that you have Parallel to a Plane through a Point, Midplane between Two Planes and many other options. What's important to know here is that depending on the type of work plane you select, Inventor is going to change the type of selections that you can make to help ease the process. For…

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