Moving Through Defined Intersection Planes

The commands described in this section move the Current Element along a given direction until it intersects with a fixed Reference Plane.

Any p-point on the Current Element may be used for the manoeuvre, although the default is the origin. This point is moved to the Reference Plane which is specified by the 3D position through which it passes. The orientation of the Reference Plane defaults to perpendicular to the movement direction.

In no case is the volumetric geometry of any of the Design model considered. Although you do not need to know the actual distance moved, you must provide ‘point-to-point’ dimensions in these commands. In other words, these commands cannot calculate physical clearances (see Moving In Front of or Behind Items and Moving to a Specified Clearance between Items for such commands).