- Now, when it comes to 3D sketching,
there are a couple interesting things
that relate to planes.
Now, let's say with this 3D sketch, for example,
I wanted to lock these points to this front plane.
I can do so by going in, editing the sketch,
grabbing one of their points, selecting the front plane,
and then selecting on plane.
This is going to move that sketch that
that point is actually located on that plane.
You can see the other point
is still not located on the plane,
'cause I just drew it randomly.
So I'm going to take that point, select it.
Select the front plane and again, select on plane.
Now, right now, it's giving me an over definition.
This can happen when sketching in 3D Solidworks,
so sometimes the 3D geometry just doesn't want to snap there,
it's hard for it to solve.
You can see, I've given it a random shape here.
So what you can do sometimes
is delete a feature that it's attached to
and try again,
and that sometimes gives it the ability to snap.
Or you can take it and just drag it to a point
that you know is already in that orientation.
So you can see you can do that there.
So that's one thing with sketching on a plane.
Another thing that you can do,
which is kind of an interesting feature,
up here, I'm going to search for 3D sketch.
You can do a 3D sketch plane,
so this inserts a plane into a 3D sketch
if you want to work on it.
So I'm going to click on this feature
and I'm going to just select a couple entities here.
And you can see I've got this plane
which you can expect to be created,
but this is going to make a new kind of plane.
This is a 3D sketch plane,
which I can adjust and drag out.
And this can be used to 3D sketch onto,
as you can see there.
So it's like doing a 2D sketch,
but it gives me the ability to use a 2D sketch
and make a 3D sketch entity.
So let me go ahead and hit go there,
and you can see that there's no plane in my feature tree.
There's just the 3D sketch.
So, a couple interesting things that we can do with planes
and 3D sketching on planes.