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How to create a plane that indicates the ground in an outdoor design project?

andre6HCEA — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 19:29:56 GMT

I'm designing a garden arbor using Fusion360. One of the elements are 4x6 posts sunk 16" into the ground. I want to be able to have a plane that represents the ground surface so I can reference off of this, as I'm building a deck platform that sits on top of the ground. Right now I just have the post positioned to begin 16" below the deck, but in my drawings and model I would like to be able to show where the ground level is.

Any thoughts?

Re: How to create a plane that indicates the ground in an outdoor design project

davebYYPCU — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 19:35:09 GMT

Create an Offset Plane below the deck, at the height desired.

They may be other criterion you didn’t mention.

Re: How to create a plane that indicates the ground in an outdoor design project

jhackney1972 — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 00:09:43 GMT

As @davebYYPCU said, you can create an offset plane for your deck height. I wanted to show you how to get a ground level line into your 2D drawing. Unfortunately Fusion 360 will not display work planes in drawings do you have to add a sketch, which represents ground level, into your model. This can then be turned on in the drawing and labeled and if desired dimensioned to. Take a look at the screencast. By the way, you do not have to create an extra plane in your model to represent the ground plane, I just did it so I could name it which you cannot do to an origin plane.