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Dave, it's not something I need routinely at this point. I just came across the Orient To Plane button in the View tab, and had a play with it. Thought that it's something that will be useful if I'm wanting to view parts normal to specific planes. Ugmentalcase, it definitely seems to be related...

Thanks Dave. Well, selecting the plane and activating 2D sketch, then using the reset view button certainly works, and I can exit sketch mode and the part seems to stay in position no problem. It's just weird that a dedicated "Orient To Plane" button outside of sketch mode, has no "Reset...

Thanks Harold but this situation is different. I've used the "Reset View" in sketch mode a few times already. This is for when you are not in sketch mode. Let's say I open a part, then go to the View tab. There's a button there "Orient to Plane". You click on any plane you want to be normal to...

Not in sketch mode. So had a plane not parallel to any of the world planes, and I use the "Orient To Plane" tool (under the View tab) to snap this plane normal to view. However, I cannot see any way of making this view the opposite side. I would have expected a tick box in the orient to plane...

OK, took a lot of hunting to find the mouse/cursor symbol I get during sketching, when the cursor "sees" a line for instance. I've attached 2 images. One is 3D so you can see the 2 reference planes and 2 axis I've created in the upper right part of the flat plate. I created a sketch on the...

Double and triple checked mine, and sketching does not see axis. Even when I go off the sketch plane and hover over the axis, it is not seen. The only thing I get while sketching is an inference line to the origin point. Basic selecting works on an axis and so does using the axis for sketch...

Thanks David, learnt something there. What I've been trying to do is use the axis when creating the sketch entities, but when sketching that axis is "not noticed". So I would project the axis to the sketch then created the sketch entity using the projected line. However, definitely much...

Thanks guys. Harold, my issue was not so much creating planes but wondering if they could be used in sketches. Example, I use Fusion at work, and where a plane crosses a sketch plane/face, you can project a line onto the sketch at that point. However, with Alibre, it seems you have to create a...

Hi Dave, thanks for the info. Apart from just learning the software and what can be done (which for me is the more important part), it was for one of the hardest exercises done in the Tootalltoby competitions. Ex Machina Engineering had this one on his Youtube channel () and I was trying to...

UPDATE: I've just found out something. I never realised you can use Project to Sketch and use the axis to project sketch lines. However, could not project planes. So at least that is one way of using the axis to drive sketch geometry, but it's quite a pain because I have to find geometry...

Alibre Expert v27 So I create a 100 x 100 square, extrude it 10mm and I have a flat square "slab". I insert 3 reference planes: 1st 20mm offset from side edge 2nd 20mm offset from top edge 3rd on the flat 100 x 100 surface Just for the heck of it, I also insert an axis at the intersection of...

Thanks Miles. I'd heard about the continuous rotation but thought I only had to keep the mouse pressed on the apply button.

Awesome, thanks for the feedback. Feels good being able to help, after the help I've received. And thanks for the link, I'll see what I can learn from that.

Don't know if the following is of any help. I'm not exactly an advanced user and am normally the one asking for help. I looked up an old cam follower tutorial I've got, after seeing this thread. The cam in that tutorial was basically made with an elipse, and the follower can be made tangent to...

Ah, thanks Nate. I didn't actually realise they were just product improvement ideas. Straight out of bed, looked at the thread, then went to work. Got your post while at work.