Align to Planes

Use the Planes tool to project nodes, elements, lines and points onto a plane along a user-defined direction

  1. From the secondary ribbon, click the Planes tool.


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  2. Select nodes, elements, lines, or points as source entities to be projected onto the target plane.
  3. Use the Target selector on the guide bar to select between a plane or a direction.
    • Plane - Use the Plane tool to align/project.

      The plane could be aligned to a surface/mesh/nodes, and so on.

    • Direction - Use the Vector tool to define the direction of projection. All of the selected entities are projected along the same direction.
  4. Click .


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