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Layer Plane, Automatic & placing objects


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I teach it to my students this way:

Layer plane is your sheet of vellum on your desk

Screen plane is the glass of your computer monitor

Automatic gives you an active working plane that will snap your tool or command to the surface that is purple.

Sounds easy, right...but...

Automatic can only be selected when you have a tool or polygonal tool (rectangle, Line, etc) selected - not always in the menu.

They have added in other "Plane" options which confuse and make trouble... 3D, Screen Aligned, Symbol definition. Also, not in the drop down menu.

I don't know why they made it so convoluted, but it is easily the hardest single concept for my students to grasp when I teach them this program. Frustrating.

Glad you understand it better!

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