What is the exact procedure for lifting one plane off the other (separating planes). I've watched several video's , video's claims you hold down the control key and "Just" drag the plane off the other. But that's not working for me.
Am I to hold down the left mouse key first then control key the entire drag ? or does the mouse cursor has to be on a entities ?
What is the step by step procedure please.
thank you.
with control selected first, hoover over the outline of the plane until it changes to Orange, click and drag, adjust dimension as needed.
Andreas Rhomberg wrote:
with control selected first, hoover over the outline of the plane until it changes to Orange, click and drag, adjust dimension as needed.
Your method creates a copy of the plane. While I knew about that method, I have never actually used it. I wasn't exactly sure what the OP was getting at.
If this is indeed what the OP is after then that is good.
If the OP is after moving the plane instead and it is coincident with another plane, then editing the plane and changing the reference to a dimension rather than a coincident would be the way to go (unless there is a shortcut for moving a coincident plane).
Dan, you are correct, given that the OP is using a Student Version I made some assumptions.
I am not familiar with "lifting off planes", copy seemed the logical solution.
Clearification ?
And what is "OP" please ?
Original poster....
OP= original post.
I think it has been stated above by Andreas Rhomberg, you can CTRL and drag to create a new plane and move it to where you want. And from your screenshot it appears that you are dealing with the situation that Dan Pihlaja mentioned; once the plane is created you have to manually edit the defining dimension and can't just drag it.
Here's a screenshot demonstrating what Andreas mentioned:
Using your instruction as a guide, I chose the plane in the feature tree (Top in this case) Then while holding down the control key, then hovered the mouse cursor over the plane outline until the "X" appeared, then held down the left mouse and drag up. My plane outline does not change color in this application.
thanks for the help.
Are we talking two Reference Planes that are both in the same part that are coincident with each other?
Or are we talking 2 parts that in an assembly and each part has a plane....and THOSE are coincident with each other?
There are a lot of variable here.....so sharing a screen shot of what you are talking would go far towards helping is answer you.
I had to revisit this post from a year and 5 months back. I thought I had it figured out because a passed responders explaination to my question. But I've now learned he explained wrong. After further study, I've learned to make this operation work, first (in my software anyway) I cannot be in sketch mode. I have to be in a "Neutral" mode (I'm guessing that's what it's called ?). Then I have to select the plane I wish to make a copy of from the part manager, hover the pointer over the edge of the selected plane until the X appears, then hold down the ctrl button, then left click and drag to get the second plane and open the "Plane" feature in the Property manager to set the plane distance. 
Anybody disagree ?
Thank you, Frank
Yes that is correct. Unless you are specifically dealing with sketch entities, always assume that you need to be out of sketch edit mode.
I had to revisit this post from a year and 5 months back. I thought I had it figured out because a passed responders explaination to my question. But I've now learned he explained wrong. After further study, I've learned to make this operation work, first (in my software anyway) I cannot be in sketch mode. I have to be in a "Neutral" mode (I'm guessing that's what it's called ?). Then I have to select the plane I wish to make a copy of from the part manager, hover the pointer over the edge of the selected plane until the X appears, then hold down the ctrl button, then left click and drag to get the second plane and open the "Plane" feature in the Property manager to set the plane distance.
Anybody disagree ?
Thank you, Frank