Do you not work with planes in IRONCAD?

Yeah, all the time

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

However, very little time is spent thinking about how or even if you work with them!

The reason is ironcad's advanced technology, which handles this very smoothly in the background, but which some might mistakenly perceive as simple or as completely lacking a plan in the 3D scene. Above all, it is the TriBall tool that manages this.

As a beginner, you might not always be so fond of 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 highly appreciated multimedia-based basic training material, things usually fall into place and you instead start to appreciate the TriBall. After a few more days of "hands-on" work, you usually have a handle on "everything you need" and after a while longer, it fits like a glove.

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

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

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