Strange Yellow Work Plane?

[Anonymous]

I recently tried to move a work plane in a sketch and when i exited this strange yellow plane appeared and i cant find a way to remove it. Can someone please explain to me what this is and how i remove it? 😮

I added a screenshot of it to look at.

[JDMather]

Under the Object Visibility show that all Workplane Visibility it off (your image doesn't show the drop down).

[Anonymous]

You have probably created a plane in one of your parts that was refrenced from a plane in another part.

Or you created a sketch off of a plane in another part - same result.

Inventor automaticaly creates a workplane in your part to represent the plane in the other, and if not associative it grounds it.

If you grab the object selector tool and pick "select sketch features"  you can then pick the plane and turn its visibility off with the right click,  or "find in browser" and turn it off there.

(if there is a fluke an you cannot pick it no matter what  (I think I ran into this once) find the part it is in, and turn it off in the parts own tree.)  If advanced highlight is on,  the plane should light up with the part.

I recommend NOT turning off ALL work planes as stated above,   when you need them, and turn them back on,  every plane you don't want will appear along with the ones you do.  They your stuck continually turning all planes on and off.

Also consider creating user view representations with planes, or planes you want, "ON".  You can switch to these views to interact with planes if needed.  Get in the habit of creating view reps for working purposes only, then delete them as they are only temporary work views.  They you don't have to play with visibility settings in your main views all the time.

T.S.

[Cadmanto]

Welcome to the forum.

What has already been stated is correct.  Like JD mentioned, turning off the Origin Planes and the User Work Planes should turn it off.

What is strange is that the yellow plane is what it looks like when it is selected from the browser.

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[Anonymous]

Cadmanto

That's the easy fix that may get him into trouble later(still good to know though)  see my post above.

Turning on work planes near the end of a project and being bombarded by 10,000 planes can be a pain.

manage them individually as you go along to avoid this nightmare.

T.S.

[Cadmanto]

T.S.

I don't disagree with you at all.  Just depends on the OP's  objective.

It's great that he has all avenues in this thread to hopefully accomplish what he is looking for.

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[Anonymous]

Cadmanto

I knew you knew 🙂    Early habits are the most important things to get right for a new user.

1,652 posts,  now that's contributing.

and I like your signature block,  makes you look like a heavily decorated soldier 🙂 

[Cadmanto]

T.S.

Understood.

Thank you.  They are just done with images in macros.

I like to help people and if I learn something along the way, all the better. 

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[cbenner]

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@Cadmanto wrote:

T.S.

Understood.

Thank you.  They are just done with images in macros.

I like to help people and if I learn something along the way, all the better. 

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What I don't understand, Scott, is how you passed me in posts!?!  Must have been while I was on vacation! 

[Cadmanto]

Chris,

Someone had to answer those tough questions while you were floating out in the middle of no where!!!! 

It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it. 

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[Anonymous]

Thanks guys for all the support. I really appreciate it.