Hi, thanks for reading. I want to do an auto line between 2 planes. How can I get the line from one plane to the other? And straight? Having a time with this. Any insight is greatly appreciated.
It first sounds like you are not measuring planes then making a line between them, you are measuring points and making a line between them.
I don't see a reason to align point to point before making the line, best fit will go from point to point. I also don't know what you'd do with it, since you don't know if the points were perfectly opposite each other with respect to the actual orientation of the slot, and therefore may or may not be a representation of the slot width.
But you then say square slot and ADJACENT (touching) sides.
That would be two planes, construct line, leave it on auto, it will make a line right up the corner intersection.
If you want the corner between two adjacent flat surfaces, I would measure planes and intersect them in the create feature -> Line tool.
If you are trying to measure a width, and believe it will be pretty consistent as manufactured, I'd measure two planes and ask for the distance between them parallel to a part axis.
If I thought the slot would be crooked to the axes, I'd align one plane, then ask for the location of the other (in Y or X or whatever, since I aligned one, it would be zero, no distance necessary). In theory you can do this by telling the distance tool that you want the distance parallel to or perpendicular to the feature input, but I am a control freak and want to know and see precisely what is happening, so if I'm not distancing to an axis, I do this, though it should be over-kill.
If I thought it might be crooked and inconsistent in width, and it had a tolerance making me concerned about being out of spec, I'd measure a plane and align it.
I'd then measure that plane again with typed in (lets say I leveled it to ZPLUS and zeroed Z) X and Y hits so they were in a very specific location.
I'd then measure the other plane with the same exact X and Y.
Then I'd distance between opposing points.
It first sounds like you are not measuring planes then making a line between them, you are measuring points and making a line between them.
I don't see a reason to align point to point before making the line, best fit will go from point to point. I also don't know what you'd do with it, since you don't know if the points were perfectly opposite each other with respect to the actual orientation of the slot, and therefore may or may not be a representation of the slot width.
But you then say square slot and ADJACENT (touching) sides.
That would be two planes, construct line, leave it on auto, it will make a line right up the corner intersection.
If you want the corner between two adjacent flat surfaces, I would measure planes and intersect them in the create feature -> Line tool.
If you are trying to measure a width, and believe it will be pretty consistent as manufactured, I'd measure two planes and ask for the distance between them parallel to a part axis.
If I thought the slot would be crooked to the axes, I'd align one plane, then ask for the location of the other (in Y or X or whatever, since I aligned one, it would be zero, no distance necessary). In theory you can do this by telling the distance tool that you want the distance parallel to or perpendicular to the feature input, but I am a control freak and want to know and see precisely what is happening, so if I'm not distancing to an axis, I do this, though it should be over-kill.
If I thought it might be crooked and inconsistent in width, and it had a tolerance making me concerned about being out of spec, I'd measure a plane and align it.
I'd then measure that plane again with typed in (lets say I leveled it to ZPLUS and zeroed Z) X and Y hits so they were in a very specific location.
I'd then measure the other plane with the same exact X and Y.
Then I'd distance between opposing points.
