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

[andre6HCEA]

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?

[davebYYPCU]

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

They may be other criterion you didn’t mention.

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

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.