Create construction planes and axes

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Create construction planes and axes.

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After completing this video,

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you'll be able to

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create construction planes and axes.

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To get started in Fusion,

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we want to open the supply dataset,

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Plans and Axissamples.F3D.

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We're gonna be taking a look at the creation

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of construction planes and axes using this sample geometry.

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So,

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first,

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let's get started by understanding what the construction geometry is.

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In general,

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we'll use planes and axes to help with the creation of geometry.

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Planes are used to create sketches,

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and axes can often be used as references in sketches,

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or they can be used as selections during feature creation,

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for example,

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a revolt.

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We're gonna take a look at a handful of these,

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but it is important as you're preparing for the certification.

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That you really understand the core of each of these and how they're created.

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So to get started,

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a basic offset plane is going to be one

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of the more common construction planes that gets created.

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When we select the offset plane,

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we can either select a current plane or a plane or face

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and pick a distance from that geometry in which we want to create a new plane.

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We can say,

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OK,

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and then a construction folder is created in our browser.

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Let's go ahead and hide plane one for now.

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As we go down through the list of construction geometry,

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the tool tip will indicate what we need in order to create that geometry.

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For example,

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plane at an angle will require us to create a plane using an edge,

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an axis,

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or a line,

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and we'll create it at a specified angle.

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The tangent plane

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will use a construction plane that's created based on

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the tangency of a cylinder or a conical face.

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We're not going to be creating each of these,

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but let's go ahead and take a look at midplane.

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This is a pretty common one that gets created

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based on the selection of two faces.

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In this case,

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for example,

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I can select these two faces on our part,

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and a midplane is going to be created directly between them.

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This can be extremely handy during the modeling process

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to be able to create a midplane on geometry

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that wasn't created centered about the origin.

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As we look through our construction planes,

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there are also ones,

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for example,

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through two edges,

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through 3 points,

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playing tangent to a face at a point,

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and along a path.

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The plane along a path is extremely helpful,

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especially when creating complex shapes using things like the loft tool.

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You select a path,

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and then you can dictate where along that path,

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for example,

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the zero position,

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halfway or 50%,

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and the end position.

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Once again,

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this can be extremely helpful,

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as you can create geometry normal to a selected edge or path,

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that can be great for things like sweeps as well as lofts.

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Once we say,

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OK,

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our new plane is created.

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As we take a look through,

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the second section is going to include axes.

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These can be created through a cylinder cone tous,

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for example,

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or perpendicular at a point.

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Let's go ahead and create the first one by selecting our cylindrical face

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and notice that an axis is created directly at the center of it.

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When we take a look at some of our other options,

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we can see here that we can create an axis through an edge or through two points.

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If we select the through two points option,

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we can select the bottom left point

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and the upper right point,

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and notice that an axis here is created through both objects.

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At the very bottom,

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we have options to create points.

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Now,

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points generally can come from sketch geometry,

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but oftentimes we may need to create a vertex at

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a specific location to be used through a tool.

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For example,

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we can use point at a vertex

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and we can select a specific vertex on our object.

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This can be very helpful for future creation in sketches,

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whether it's on a sketch plane or needs to be projected to a

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sketch plane by some other geometry that you have in your design.

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But again,

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the most common thing that we're gonna do with the

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construction geometry is create a plane for separate sketch creations

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or by creating an axis that can be used as a reference

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in a sketch or for a specific tool like a revolt.

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Make sure that you do go through each of these and at least look at the tool tips

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to get a better understanding on how they're created and what inputs they need.

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Once you're done,

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go ahead and save this file before moving on.