Featurescript-Orient a plane

Hugh_Goodbody

I would like to draw a rectangle on the end of an I beam. I have found the plane and the points for the sketched rectangle but the plane's axes are not parallel with the edges of the beam.

I have queried the beam edges, Is it possible to rotate the plane so that one of its axes is in the same direction as the queried lines?

konstantin_shiriazdanov

say if your lines are in linesQuery, sketch plane is stored in planeQuery then:

var skPlane = evPlane(context,{"face":planeQuery});

skPlane.xAxis = evLine(context, {"edge":linesQuery}).direction;

then skPlane should have xAxis aligned to one of the edges and you can transfrom 3d vertex coordinate vectors to 2d vectors in plane's coordinate system with worldToPlane() function

konstantin_shiriazdanov

say if your lines are in linesQuery, sketch plane is stored in planeQuery then:

var skPlane = evPlane(context,{"face":planeQuery});

skPlane.xAxis = evLine(context, {"edge":linesQuery}).direction;

then skPlane should have xAxis aligned to one of the edges and you can transfrom 3d vertex coordinate vectors to 2d vectors in plane's coordinate system with worldToPlane() function

Hugh_Goodbody

Perfect, thanks very much!