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Constructing base planes for orientation

Constructing base planes for orientation

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Constructing base planes for orientation

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- [Instructor] In the last video, we looked at using the deconstruct brep component and some sorting to get the largest face from each of our three dimensional shelf panels. We're going to continue where we left off, so moving on from this last step, we need to work on using that information from the largest face to create a base plane for each panel, which we'll then use to orient it onto the world XY construction plane. So I'll give myself a little bit more room here. And I'm going to bring up a construct plane component. And a surface points component. So essentially what we're going to be doing is taking the largest face from each panel and I can see here if I highlight this list item component, it's highlighting just the largest faces from each of those trapezoidal profiles. So I can take those faces, break them down into points, use those points to construct a plane, which we'll use as a base plane for an orient later on. So let's plug in the output of our list item into surface…

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