How to move pane up

felix_meyer213

Can some one please, please, please tell me how to move Plane 1, which has Sketch 2 on it, up 10 cm. I'm total new to CAD and I'm trying to understand it for two days now but absolutely nothing works the way I'd intuitively think it would work.  

eric_pesty

You can't do it in one step, if you want a plane at 45deg but 10cm further up in the z direction, you basically have to create 2 planes (and some construction geometry), or just some construction geometry.
What you can do however is to use a mate connector with offsets for "sketch2", then you don't need a plane at all and you can do it all in one step. See example in:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/23467be153109d902a35ab43/w/af0feb4d7ff8f44dd40323df/e/ed4fb870c468a8e57a0dd10f

glen_dewsbury

I have a slight preference to use sketch geometry (especially if it already exist from previous construction). Your new sketch location will move as other geometry changes. Then the new sketch uses mate connector on line end as you say with out a separate plane feature.

felix_meyer213

eric_pesty said:

You can't do it in one step, if you want a plane at 45deg but 10cm further up in the z direction, you basically have to create 2 planes (and some construction geometry), or just some construction geometry.
What you can do however is to use a mate connector with offsets for "sketch2", then you don't need a plane at all and you can do it all in one step. See example in:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/23467be153109d902a35ab43/w/af0feb4d7ff8f44dd40323df/e/ed4fb870c468a8e57a0dd10f

That does not work for me. Sketch 2 is moved 10cm normal to Sketch 2. But I want it to move 10cm normal to Sketch 1.

eric_pesty

Hi @felix_meyer213,
Did you open the linked document? The sketch plane for sketch2 is actually 10cm from sketch1 in the vertical direction, I'm not quite sure what you are trying to achieve but it sounded like that was what you meant...




The shape I had on sketch2 was just the projection of sketch1 onto sketch2 (done with the "use" tool) but if I drawn a circle on the origin of sketch2 it looks as shown above.

Maybe you were trying to project the shape on sketch1 onto sketch2 (although that doesn't quite look like what you meant)? Something like this maybe?
Can you clarify what exactly you are trying to get to?

felix_meyer213

eric_pesty said:

You can't do it in one step, if you want a plane at 45deg but 10cm further up in the z direction, you basically have to create 2 planes (and some construction geometry), or just some construction geometry.
What you can do however is to use a mate connector with offsets for "sketch2", then you don't need a plane at all and you can do it all in one step. See example in:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/23467be153109d902a35ab43/w/af0feb4d7ff8f44dd40323df/e/ed4fb870c468a8e57a0dd10f

That does not work for me. Sketch 2 is moved 10cm normal to Sketch 2. But I want it to move 10cm normal to Sketch 1.

felix_meyer213

What want is, that when I look at it from above (aka when I select the "Top" view) then the centres of the two circles need to be aligned and both circles have the same diameter.

glen_dewsbury

Use a mate connector in the second sketch instead of a plane and adjust height and angle of mate connector.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/12b0679a712bc6f544f72c07/w/67e973d9c8c7d9393a467fa0/e/e7048a92b27f236df82914d7

eric_pesty

Do you mean you don't want the plane at an angle? in this case I think you just need to use the "offset" option for the plane:



Otherwise the purple projected curve option would look like two superimposed circles from a top view (but the projected curve is an ellipse). If you want a circle there instead you can draw a circle where the ellipse is. 


https://cad.onshape.com/documents/23467be153109d902a35ab43/w/af0feb4d7ff8f44dd40323df/e/ed4fb870c468a8e57a0dd10f