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[Farah]

Hi everyone,

I want to create a plane using the coordinates of 3 points to cut an object. I’m new to SpaceClaim, so I’d appreciate it if you could show me, possibly with a screenshot, if possible. I can't figure out how to do it. Can anyone help?

Thanks!

[peteroznewman]

There are many ways to do this. You mention you have three points with specific coordinates, so I will describe one way to do that.

1. On the Display tab, Show, World Origin. Hide the facet body so it is not in the way for the next steps.
   
2. On the Design tab, click the Point tool and click on the World Origin.
   
3. Click the Move Tool, click the Point, click on the X axis of the triad drag the point a little bit then type in the X coordinate, 10 mm in this example.
4. Click on the Z axis, drag a little in the direction you want then type the Z distance. In this case I dragged it in the -Z direction so the point is at z= -15 mm in this case.
5. Click on the Y axis, drag it a little and then type a value.
   
6. Click the Select button.
7. You can now repeat that for the other two points, which is tedious, but if you simply need a second point spaced in X and a third point spaced in Y, then you can simply select that first point, click the Move tool and while holding the Ctrl key down, click on the X axis and drag a second point away from the first.
   
8. Repeat but drag a point in the Y direction with the Ctrl key held down.
9. Select the 3 points and click the Plane button.
   
   Here is a cross-section view of the facet body using that plane.