Do you not work with planes in IRONCAD?

Do you not work with planes in IRONCAD?
Yes, all the time!

But you spend very little time thinking about how and even if you work with them!

The reason is IRONCAD's advanced technology that handles this in a very smooth way in the background, but which some people may mistakenly perceive as simple or as completely lacking a plane in the 3D scene. It is primarily the TriBall tool that handles this.

As a beginner, it is not always easy to get used to the TriBall tool, as it is packed with features and there is a difference between using the left and right mouse buttons etc. But after a day or two with our much appreciated multimedia-based basic training material, the pieces usually fall into place and you start to appreciate TriBall instead. After a few more days of "hard" work, you tend to know "everything you need" and after some more time it fits like a glove.

You are always working in the XYZ space around the coordinate system and TriBall uses its "built-in" planes, but also uses edges and points on existing geometry(Face/Edge/Vertex) as a starting point for position control.

However, if you create models of the type Structured Part it may be necessary to create reference planes and manage them with special tools and settings. A reference plane can be seen to some extent as acting as a kind of feature and it can be associated with other 3D geometries and the features created after it in the same part can be associated with the reference plane. More about this can be found in our course material for Structured Part.

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