Point on Custom Plane

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Permalink Reply by Ethan Gross on June 30, 2015 at 5:12pm

Establish your local plane then use the 'point orient' component in vectors>points>point oriented.

Permalink Reply by Dennis Nelson on July 1, 2015 at 8:05am

Yes Point orient does do what I need thanks.  I had assume by the name and inputs (U,V,W) it was to orient a point on a surface.  I guess I didn't look close enough.

Permalink Reply by Olivier Suire on November 14, 2018 at 1:34pm

I was looking for the exact same thing and discarded that component for the same reason.

Confusing naming at it's finest...

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on June 30, 2015 at 6:02pm

First, create (or locate) a "custom plane" - many ways to create a plane, or get one from a surface:

Then create a plane-relative point using either 'Point Oriented', 'Point Polar' or 'To Polar' (maybe others?)

Yes, keeping track of planes can be crucial - for 'Orient' and other things.

Permalink Reply by Dennis Nelson on July 1, 2015 at 8:42am

Thanks