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    Ktelang
    Posts: 268
    Registered: ‎09-23-2010

    Flip Normal value? direction ?

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    11-15-2012 10:40 AM

    Hello Everybody,

     

    How can we know what is the current Normal of a workplane.

    I am trying to understand whether flipnormal is a like a value which

    I can use in my code to run a conditional statement and modify it

     

    Thanks

     

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    xiaodong.liang
    Posts: 814
    Registered: ‎06-12-2011

    Re: Flip Normal value? direction ?

    11-21-2012 08:21 PM in reply to: Ktelang

    Hi,

     

    WorkPlane.Plane.Normal can tell you the normal.



    Xiaodong Liang
    Developer Technical Services
    Autodesk Developer Network

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    Valued Mentor
    Ktelang
    Posts: 268
    Registered: ‎09-23-2010

    Re: Flip Normal value? direction ?

    11-27-2012 06:03 AM in reply to: xiaodong.liang

    Thanks for the reply

     

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