Universal Plane Tool
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I would like to understand why Fusion has separate workplane creation tools for each type of plane, rather than a single workplane tool that contextually creates the appropriate plane type based on the selected reference geometry.
This is how it works in Inventor, as demonstrated in this screencast: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-design-validate/plane-normal-to-line-at-point/m-p/9809621/...
There are (at least) two key reasons why the Fusion approach is inefficient:
1. Time spent identifying and finding the correct plane type for the use case.
2. Unable to redefine existing planes as a different type of plane. This forces you to create a new plane as needed, update all dependent features to reference the new plane, then delete the old one.
eg. An extrude cut built with depth driven by and offset plane now needs to be driven by a midpoint plane. I should be able to just redefine the inputs of the original plane rather than creating a new midpoint plane, redefining the sketch plane of the extrusion and then deleting the offset plane.
Any thoughts or suggestions on this? Maybe a redefinition workflow I've missed?