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Missing in CONSTRUCT menu: plane perpendicular to Axis at Point

maartenpennings — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 13:19:29 GMT

It now already for the third time that I want to construct a plane, through a point, perpendicular to a line. I can't find it in the CONSTRUCT menu. Of course, there are other ways to construct that plane - but they feel like a workaround.

Am I a bad searcher or is there a problem with such a construct? It looks like an obvious omission to me.

I "photo shopped" a screenshot with the missing menu entry, to show where I expect it to be.

Re: Missing in CONSTRUCT menu: plane perpendicular to Axis at Point

g-andresen — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 13:46:08 GMT

Hi,

for me you are talking about this

I can´t see any workaround

günther

Re: Missing in CONSTRUCT menu: plane perpendicular to Axis at Point

TheCADWhisperer — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 14:36:47 GMT

You are not missing anything - it is Fusion that is missing basic functionality (or hidden by the "Design Differently" philosophy).

Select Plane along Path and set to 0 for beginning of path or to 1 for end of path (endpoint of curve).

Edit: I see that @g-andresen already posted the same image.

Re: Missing in CONSTRUCT menu: plane perpendicular to Axis at Point

johnAMKDR — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 15:35:38 GMT

Could either of you elaborate on this? I am trying to get a construction plane perpendicular to a construction axis. In this case, I don't really have a particular point in mind, but I could probably pick a point on the part if needed.

The best I have done is to get a plane through the axis and sometimes I cannot even select the axis as a path. In this case, the selection filters available are Body Edges and Sketch Curves.

Re: Missing in CONSTRUCT menu: plane perpendicular to Axis at Point

g-andresen — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 16:29:40 GMT

Hi,

please share the file and name the axis you are talking about

günther

Re: Missing in CONSTRUCT menu: plane perpendicular to Axis at Point

TheCADWhisperer — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 17:32:33 GMT

An axis goes to infinity (sort of), even if the graphics only show a portion of it. No endpoints. No 0 or 1.

Re: Missing in CONSTRUCT menu: plane perpendicular to Axis at Point

johnAMKDR — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 21:20:07 GMT

https://a360.co/3ygrNk9

This is a hollow cylinder with two holes in the side and 3 "construction"
axes going through the side. The two red axes were made in the 2D sketch by
drawing a line, then right clicking and choosing "construction". The blue
one was made using the Construction menu, "Axis through Cylinder".

When I try Construction/plane along path, I can select the red axes and get
a plane in the right place, but not the blue one. The part I'm actually
looking at is imported from Solidworks, so I was putting an axis through a
cylinder.

Thanks for helping.

John

Re: Missing in CONSTRUCT menu: plane perpendicular to Axis at Point

g-andresen — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 13:11:27 GMT

Hi,

normally the positions for the holes are determined in the first sketch.

In the screencast I do this afterwards to get a line that can be used as a path.

günther

Re: Missing in CONSTRUCT menu: plane perpendicular to Axis at Point

g-andresen — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 13:30:42 GMT

Hi,

one more

Screencast

günther

Re: Missing in CONSTRUCT menu: plane perpendicular to Axis at Point

johnAMKDR — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 18:26:15 GMT

Hi Guenther,

Thank you for the screen cast. I got the technique to work on the model I sent earlier. I'll have to study it some more to see how it works.

It is interesting that "plane at an angle" will select my axis even when "plane along path" will not. I tried this on my original model, a part imported from SolidWorks, and I cannot select the axis for "plane along path". Maybe I did the projection incorrectly. I will try some more.

John