All in One Construction Plane Creation

[Anonymous]

I would like to see the creation of all "Construction" types be under ONE creation dialogue for each of the Construction tools. One dialog for creating Planes, one for Axis, and one for Points. You click on "Create Plane" and then the dialog offers all the different methods to do this.

The big advantage of this would be when you need to redefine a plane by a different method than what you originally used. As of now, if you want to redefine a plane as "Plane at Angle" and you had made it an "Offset Plane", you have to delete it; create the new one; and then reroute any sketches or splits that used it to the new plane. A time suck.

[kb9ydn]

The other problem with the way it's done now is that there are way too many menu items to choose from, and it's cumbersome to dig through that list.  Incidentally, this idea has been suggested before a couple times but was archived (just the other day in fact) for lack of votes. 

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/ideastation-request-a-feature-or/a-more-user-friendly-way-of-construct...

Solidworks totally nails this as shown in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU5m706z_Dk

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[Murdug]

Agreed! I'm used to Creo/Pro Engineer; they've also nailed it according to me. You have one "create plane" function that takes whatever you select and fits a plane to it (assuming it's possible of course), giving you all options to modify it or select alternative references. "Edit definition" somewhere down the line is then also a pleasure because it displays a box with all the references and you can replace individual or pick completely new references. Makes design changes a pleasure!