A task that I execute many times per day is to create a section view that runs through a hole. Most of the time, I'm doing this while programming some type of a port in Inventor CAM. I've created a shortcut key to create a section (PageDown), but the task always involves measuring from a plane to the hole center, copying that distance to the clipboard from the measurement output, then hitting PageDown, selecting the plane that I measured from, and pasting in the distance that I copied. When creating a work plane, the user can choose "parallel to plane through a point".... Something similar to this for the section command would be very useful. If the user could choose a plane then a cylinder and get a cross section through the center of the cylinder, parallel to the plane, that would be a quick and dirty method that would save many sub-tasks to get to the same point.
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