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Reference Planes

Reference planes defined from the top plane are no longer rotated 180º from the top plane, and now behave the same as reference planes defined from the front or right planes.

This change eliminates unexpected rotation of the model when viewing normal to the reference plane. It also eliminates flipping of copied sketches when you paste them onto the reference plane.

For example, suppose you create Plane1 at an offset from Top Plane. Then you copy a sketch from Top Plane and paste it onto Plane1.

In SolidWorks 2012, the copy of the sketch is oriented as expected.   Previously, the copy of the sketch flipped 180º.
RefPlane_sketch_2012.gif   RefPlane_sketch_2011.gif
Parent topic: Parts and Features


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