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Planes

SolidWorks provides Front, Top, and Right planes as defaults. The orientations (Front, Top, Right, and so on) relate to these planes. Planes are used for sketching and for creating geometry for features.

You can create reference planes in addition to the default planes, and you can open sketches on planar model faces.

Front plane

Top plane

Right plane

Plane offset

Plane on face

Related 2D CAD Topics

Construction Entities

Coordinate Systems

Related SolidWorks Topics

SolidWorks Help: Creating Planes

SolidWorks Help: Moving, Resizing, and Copying Planes

SolidWorks Help: Where to Start a Sketch



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