About Accessing the Reference Plane Browser

The reference plane browser lets you select the reference planes for creating structure objects. It is accessible only from the contextual menu.

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Plane Systems Dialog Box

The reference plane browser lists the reference planes defined in the active structure system. The planes come from the project data geometrical set or any user-defined plane system and sub-plane system. Several filters are provided, the plane list can be filtered by a plane system or sub- plane system.

The table below list the various methods to access the reference plane browser.

Command Contextual menu accessible from
Plate Support editor
Limits editor
Stiffener Support editor
Limits Start editor
Limits End editor
Stiffener on Free Edge Limits Start editor
Limits End editor
Beam Reference planes mode > Transversal editor
Reference planes mode > Longitudinal editor
Curve and Point to point mode > Limits Start editor
Curve and Point to point mode > Limits End editor
Split Plate Splitting Object editor
Split Stiffener Splitting Object editor