Creating two planes in a single feature

[JG_12906903]

Heyooo,

I needed to create a datum plane that was angled in a specific way, then offset from that angle. Usually this would take two plane features in my tree, one to angle a plane, then another to offset that plane. However I fat fingered my keyboard and while in the first step to set the angle, I entered an offset function. This gave me two planes the way I needed them, but under one feature in my tree. Does anyone know how this is done?

[kdirth · Accepted solution]

That is a nested DTM.  There are two ways to get that.

1. Start a DTM then start another DTM while defining the first.
2. Create the 2 DTM's, then drag the parent DTM (1st) on top of the child (2nd).

You can always unnest by dragging the nested DTM out and above the other DTM.

For your stated need, you would start an offset plane, create an angled plane, and finish the offset plane.

Also, the nested DTM is not available as a reference later in the model.

[StephenW]

Yes, this is the way, @kdirth nailed it. If you expand your datum, you can see the nested datum, hidden by default. Comes in really handy sometimes but I typically try not to do it like that because not everyone in the future will find it and end up making a mess with it in the future, just my opinion.