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Creates new radial planes around the radial cylinders. Radial planes are placed with respect to the North / Y-axis being 0-degrees. Radial planes are placed across the entire radial cylinder. Therefore, you cannot place a plane that is equal to or greater than 180-degrees (the 0-degree plane is the 180-degree plane, the 45-degree plane is the 135-degree plane, and so forth). With the Grid Wizard, you can also modify existing radial planes.

Radial Plane Settings

You cannot use the Grid Wizard to modify these options after initial placement.

Reference CS

Select the coordinate system to reference for the location of the Start Plane. The name of the coordinate system set in the Create Coordinate System dialog box of the Grid Wizard displays by default.

Start plane

Specify the location of the first radial plane. The location is relative to the North (Y) \ Y coordinate specified for the selected reference coordinate system. If radial planes already exist, you can select one from the list. The Start plane list allows you to type the text for plane name along with the location information. For example, you can do the following:

  • Specify the plane position as 20.00 m

  • Type the text for plane name as 'RADPLANE1'

  • Type the text for plane name along with the plane position as 'RADPLANE1' + 20.00 m

Copies

Type the number of radial plane copies to create.

Spacing

Type the spacing between the radial planes along the Y-axis.

End plane

Displays the location of the last radial plane. You cannot edit this value.

Name rule

Select the Grids Naming Rules that you want to use to name the radial planes that you are creating.

Nesting level

Defines the nesting level for the radial plane. You can select Primary, Secondary, or Tertiary. Between two adjacent radial planes, a difference of only one level is allowed. Therefore, secondary radial planes are only allowed between two primary radial planes. Similarly, tertiary radial planes are only allowed between two secondary radial planes.

Type

Specifies the type of radial plane. You can define radial plane types in the reference data.

Add

Adds the defined radial plane settings to the Radial Plane Locations list.

Radial Plane Locations

If you are editing an existing coordinate system, the Radial Plane Locations grid displays existing planes in blue and new planes in black.

Location

Displays the location of the radial plane with respect to the North \ Y axis of the parent coordinate system.

Type

Specifies the type of radial plane. You can change the radial plane type if necessary.

Name

Displays the name of the radial plane. You can edit the name by selecting the box and then typing a new name.

Nesting level

Displays the nesting level of the radial plane.

Global Location

Displays the location of the radial plane relative to the North \ Y axis of the global coordinate system.

Spacing

Specifies the spacing between planes for a project to monitor the relative location of these planes. The first plane is always set to 0.00. For each subsequent plane, the Spacing value is its relative distance from the previous plane. This is a read-only value when creating a new coordinate system but can be modified in an existing coordinate system.

If you edit the Spacing value of an existing plane, the plane shifts to the new location as required. In addition, the remaining planes along that axis will also re-locate relative to the new location of the edited plane to maintain their existing Spacing values.

Delete

Deletes the selected radial plane from the list of planes to be created. You cannot delete radial planes that have already been placed in the model using the Grid Wizard.