Datum Plane

Use the Datum Plane command to create a planar reference feature to help define other features, such as swept bodies and features at angles to the faces of target solids.

Datum planes can be associative or non-associative.

Associative datum planes

Associative datum planes reference curves, faces, edges, points, and other datums. You can create associative datum planes across multiple bodies.

Associative datum planes are listed in the Part Navigator as Datum Plane entries.

Non-associative datum planes

Non-associative datum planes do not reference other geometry. Use any of the datum plane methods to create non-associative datum planes by clearing the Associative box in the Datum Plane dialog box.

Non-associative datum planes are listed in the Part Navigator as Fixed Datum Plane entries.

Note: Some datum planes are non-associative, or fixed, by default. These include XC-YC Plane, XC-ZC Plane, YC-ZC Plane, View Plane, and By Coefficients.

Where do I find it?

Application	Modeling
Command	Datum Plane
Shortcut menu	Right-click a planar face → Datum Plane

How do I

• Create a datum plane using Infer
• Create a datum plane using offset
• Create a datum plane using a point and a direction
• Create a datum plane at an angle
• Create a datum plane midway between planar faces
• Create a datum plane through three points
• Create a datum plane using coefficients
• Size and resize datum planes

Look up more details

• Datum Plane dialog box
• Editing datum planes
• Datum Plane supported combinations of geometries and constraints

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