Hello,
I am trying to make a reference plane in assembly mode so that I can create another part.
I need the plane to be in this corner from the top of the triangle to the bottom of the triangles and parallel to the screen. I can not figure out for the life of me how to do it. Please help. Thanks!
Zac,
Thank you for your response, I am trying to re draw a this part below that is hovering so that it rests on the two blue lines. So the plane needs to be slanted and parallel to the blue lines. Is that clear? I'm sorry it's difficult for me to explain I guess
Is there any reason you can't just move and rotate the part instead of redrawing it?
Zac,
We have had these parts fabricated before and the dimensions for the hovering part were wrong, I am trying to re draw it so that it is more precise based on the dimension of the other two parts together.
Here is what happened when I chose coincident
so the lines are not orthogonal? What exactly does that mean?
Try changing the first reference from perpendicular to coincident.
I suppose it just cant be done
That's weird it's not working for you, could you upload your parts and we could see? I only have SW 2014 but someone else may be able to.
TB 2 and 3 join together on the edges where the dimension are the same and like this :
I haven't sketched on it yet so I won't speak to soon but i chose these 3 points
so far so good
I have solidworks 2015 if you want me to try playing around with it.
The closest I have come is choosing this mid point and setting the option parallel to screen
Oh wait that totally worked! Yay!
Spoke too soon lol
It means that the lines aren't perpendicular/involve enough right angles.
I'd try what zac suggested with both of them being coincident, but I might be misunderstanding how you want the plane to be orientated.
Does having both set to Coincident not get the result you want? I'm not entirely understanding what you want it to look like.