Can some one explain the root point of planar surface to me? I have a macro that tries to find faces coincident to a pre-selected face while in an assembly, and while my testing for planar surfaces that are parallel works, I would like to further limit the faces to ones that are co-planar to within some tolerance. I apply the transform to the root point of one of the planar faces, and it ends up catching faces that are not coincident within the tolerance. I was reading through the Transform2 help page and noticed that this creates the transform relative to the root component, does that mean that mean if the pre-selected face is not the root component then it neeeds to be transformed as well?
Any insight on this process or potential workarounds would be greatly appreciated.
Ok think of a vector with a start point.
It's start point is x y z. It goes in a direction of a b c
So start point is 0,0,0 (at origin)
Direction is 1,0,0 which means it's only in the x direction. So pointing away from the origin in the +x axis.
Direction is normalized which means it's length is 1 or -1. Not relevant here but good to know.
Root point is 0,0,0 and direction is something. What you visibly see about a plane in solidworks is irrelevant also. A plane doesn't have outer bounds.
So a plane is actually all points in space that is perpendicular to the axis at the root point.