how draw line in x + y directions of specific planes?

dear all,

i've made a plane perpendicular to a line, a then want to use the x and y coordinates of that new plane to draw new lines..
can't figure it out.
how can this be done?

much thanks
ognek

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Permalink Reply by Damien Alomar on October 24, 2009 at 3:36pm

Create the points as you would in the plane, then use the orient component to "translate" those points into world coordinates. The orient component will take two planes... one of those should be the plane you're translating from and the other should be the world XY plane. After they're "translated" you can use them as you would normally

Permalink Reply by Benjamin Golder on October 24, 2009 at 10:16pm

you can also use the "Plane Components" component (Decompose a Plane into its component parts) to find the x, y, and z vectors of any plane that you make.

Permalink Reply by Ognek Kciroks on October 27, 2009 at 12:00pm

Dear Damien, Benjamin,

Thank you for the feedback. I found plane components to work well.
I noticed that in the expression designer there's a way you can change the world plane to your input parameter plane. Have you used this?

Ognek

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