Setting a Plane on a curved part?

[dajsmith04]

Does anyone know how to set the plane on a curve part, for reverse engineering? The part has NO flat areas. It has three sides. Anyone have any ideas?

[#Rekd™]

Do you have a screen shot or file?

[Guest]

You "can" using Dynamic planes

 

The biggest question is do you need and "accurate" placement or a "normal" placement

 

Click on Planes >> Dynamic Planes, place the gnomon anywhere, now click and hold the triangle tip on the Z axis and drag it to you curved surface. It will now start moving along and keeping the Z normal to the surface.

[JoshC]

Nice JParis! I use dynamic planes all the time and had no idea you could do that. I was going to tell him a method I use with the xform project where you can project a point off the surface and create a vector line that we could use for plane creation purposes but this way seems much easier and you can still snap to a point on the surface.

[Guest]

This "old" tech guy, he still has a "few" tricks up his sleeve

[dajsmith04]

Hey Guys, Thank you so much