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Work Plane: plane alignment
Posted 25.04.2012, 01:17 GMT-4 3 Replies
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Hello!
I'm going through the "Introduction to Comsol Multiphysics®" Tutorial and I have question concerning the work plane.
When you create a work plane, you can chose a plane alignment, for example xz-plane.
The tutorial from page 66 shows how to draw the busbar geometry. A xz-plane is selected. Now I do not understand why later you draw on the xy-plane? I've made to screenshots to show you my problem. As you can see I've created a xz-plane but I'm still drawing on the the xy-plane.
I'm going through the "Introduction to Comsol Multiphysics®" Tutorial and I have question concerning the work plane.
When you create a work plane, you can chose a plane alignment, for example xz-plane.
The tutorial from page 66 shows how to draw the busbar geometry. A xz-plane is selected. Now I do not understand why later you draw on the xy-plane? I've made to screenshots to show you my problem. As you can see I've created a xz-plane but I'm still drawing on the the xy-plane.
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Posted:
1 decade ago
Hi
I do not really understand, I see a X-Z plane and drawings on the X-Z plane ;)
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Good luck
Ivar
I do not really understand, I see a X-Z plane and drawings on the X-Z plane ;)
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Good luck
Ivar
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Posted:
1 decade ago
There is a second coordinate system, which I've never defined.
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1 decade ago
The modeling starts off with using the xz plane where you draw the 2D profile of the busbar. Then you extrude that profile to a 3D rendering in the y direction. If you look in the model library example there are two more workplanes used for drawing the bolt holes. Those workplanes are "face parallel" orientation. Technically the last workplane in the geometry buildup is in the xy plane where you add the two bolt holes. Doing face parallel orientations makes it easier to locate new objects w/o having to determine exact heights/depths/widths of your object. Pay attention to the orientation x,y,z indicator in comsol as it tells you where you are at in the geometry.