Datum Plane Grid options

Bounded Plane

Select Datum Planes and Grids — Lets you select a datum plane (for creating a datum plane grid) or a datum plane grid (for editing). Selectable datum planes include those used to create objects, or a plane of a datum CSYS.

Grid Orientation — Appears only after you select a datum plane. Specifies whether the grid orientation is custom or based on the datum plane.

Specify Orientation — Appears only after you select a datum plane, and only when Grid Orientation is set to Custom. Lets you specify or modify the orientation and location of the datum plane grid. If you click Specify Orientation, the Point Dialog icon appears, which you can click to help you specify a point to locate the grid.

Show Manipulator — Appears only after you select a datum plane, and only when Grid Orientation is set to Custom. Controls whether the manipulator handles are visible.

Attributes

Select Grid — Lets you select an existing datum plane grid to inherit its attributes for your new grid.

Line Spacing

Major Line Spacing — Lets you specify the distance between the grid's major lines.

Minor Lines per Major — Lets you specify the number of minor lines in each set of two major lines. (One minor line appears in the same location as a major line for each set.)

Line Attributes

Line Color — Lets you specify the color of the grid's lines.

Major Line Style — Lets you specify the line style, such as dashed, for major lines.

Major Line Weight — Lets you specify the thickness of major lines.

Minor Line Style — Lets you specify the line style, such as dashed, for minor lines.

Minor Line Weight — Lets you specify the thickness of minor lines.

Settings

Display Grid — Controls whether the datum plane grid is visible.

Display On Top — Controls whether the datum plane grid is visible through objects.

Display Major Lines — Controls whether the grid's major lines are displayed, or only its minor lines.

Labels

Show Labels — Specifies whether labels are displayed, and whether they are always visible or visible only when the grid is parallel to the view.

Origin Reference — Specifies whether the labels' origin references the WCS, the Absolute CSYS, or a local CSYS.

Specify Origin — Appears only after you select a datum plane, and only when Origin Reference is set to Local. Lets you specify the labels' origin. The Point Constructor is available to help you specify a point.

Modeling Settings

Show Section Curves — Controls whether section curves are visible where the datum plane grid crosses the model.

Color Option — Lets you specify whether the section curves are in the object's color or a color that you select.

Color — Lets you select a color for the section curves.

Save Copy of Section Curves — Lets you save a copy of the section curves with your model.

• If you enable the Load Exact Representations when Saving Section Curves customer default, this option uses the loaded solid body and sheet body geometry to create accurate section curves. This customer default loads solid bodies or sheet bodies for all visible lightweight bodies on the section plane, when saving copies of section curves.
• If you do not enable this customer default, the Save Copy of Section Curves option sometimes creates approximate section curves from the loaded lightweight geometry.
• Tip: To find a customer default, choose File tab → Utilities → Customer Defaults, and click Find Default.

How do I

• Create a datum plane grid

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• Datum Plane Grid

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