Under the Super Placement properties, the X/Y/Z directions are all mixed up.īut I was ultimately defeated by the old transformation bug with faces of the occurrence being coplanar to faces on the parent feature (there are 4 coplanar faces here): I had a hard time creating the datum axis then placing it at the correct position. Next I thought of using two PolarPatterns on the first Pad, using a new datum axis as the rotation axis. It's unfortunate, because I would then have tried to pad the shapebinder and avoid 2 duplicate sketches. As for Shapebinder, it's not useful either: I thought I could simply create a Shapebinder from the first Sketch then rotate it to the right plane, unfortunately the Shapebinder object does not have a placement property so it's unmovable. To be honest, I don't see any advantage in creating datum planes in your model, because the 3 sketches can simply be attached to the standard planes. The shapebinder tool can also be used across bodies, which makes it very useful. With it you can link geometry from a sketch (or the whole sketch), a face or edges from the part. Think of it as an external geometry tool used outside the sketch. The Shapebinder tool is a totally different animal. Or a reference plane maybe (I think I found my translation! Reference is the same word in French ). Because that's what it is: a work plane, to be used to attach a sketch to, or (possibly) to pad or pocket to. It would be so much easier to understand if it was simply called work plane. It's also not very user-friendly IMO, and as far as I know, it's only used in high-end CAD suites (CATIA, Creo/Pro-Engineer). "Datum" is a term that I dislike, maybe because there is no translation in my own language (French) so it is meaningless to me, or rather that it makes no sense to associate the French "Donnée" to another word like plane (un "plan donnée" is stupid ). Velociraptux wrote:Can anyone recreate my object with datum plane or shape binder (I don't know the difference)
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