COMSOL 6.3 - Plane Geometry

) you define and create the geometry sequence for a work plane. The node also contains some settings for the visualization of the work plane’s geometry.

To open up the window for the , click the (

) button in the window for the Work Plane or select the node in the . This action typically opens the The Sketch Toolbar that provides tools for interactive drawing. You also find operations and primitives in the Work Plane Modal Toolbar.

	In the settings for the 2D geometry objects under a Plane Geometry nodes, the Selections of Resulting Entities section is only applicable in the geometry sequence, and the Show in physics list is therefore not available.

Select the checkbox to create the work plane geometry on the work plane in a 3D view (see Drawing on a 2D Work Plane in 3D). The default setting is to display the work plane in the window as a separate 2D geometry. You can change it by selecting the checkbox on the page in the window.

Under , specify how to visualize 3D objects in the work plane (as blue curves and points) by selecting one or more of the following checkboxes (all of them are selected by default):

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— Show edges and points (in a blue color) that lie in the work plane.

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— Show the intersection of 3D geometry and the work plane (in green).

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— Show the projection of all edges and points onto the work plane (in gray).

Geometry objects created in the work plane’s plane geometry (and are embedded in the 3D geometry) are not visualized using blue curves or points.

To update the visualization, click the button to show the effect of the 3D state preceding this work plane. Then, any in-plane visualization of other 3D objects, built using an extrusion from the work plane, for example, that appear below the work plane no longer appears.

	This section is only visible if your license includes the Design Module. For more information, see Constraint and Dimension Features.

Use the list to enable or disable the use of geometric constraints and dimensions (default: ).

If you have selected , the list determines what constraint and dimension features to include when building the geometry:

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(the default). This means that all constraints and dimension features are used.

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. This means that no constraint and dimension feature are used. Note that there can be other constraints and dimensions, generated by the primitive features.

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. This means that only the constraint and dimension features up to the feature you are building up to are used.