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Using construction planes

Using construction planes - Rhino Tutorial

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Using construction planes

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- In this video, we'll take a look at construction planes. Now, Rhino has many construction plane tools, but most people don't use them or are not even sure where they're located. A brief refresher, a construction plane is also referred to as a C-plane, and this is your default location for geometry unless the Osnap is kicking in. Let's draw a quick circle, and notice it's gonna be on that ground plane unless the Osnap kicks in. So it's still on the ground plane and it's snapping there. Or, it could snap somewhere else, and that would be off the construction plane. I'm going to undo both of those. Also, you can only see one construction plane at a time in any viewport. And we have three basic, or default, construction plans. One for the top, one for the side, and one for the front. So you can also think of these as X, Y, and Z. Also, we have a C-Plane toolbar. So here are all the different ways to move the C-Planes, we'll try a few of those in a minute. But also, if you get them kind…

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