{"id":1154,"date":"2013-06-25T16:30:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T15:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2013-07-22T11:05:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T10:05:59","slug":"creating-tangent-planes-in-solidworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/06\/creating-tangent-planes-in-solidworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Tangent Planes in SolidWorks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you may need to create a tangent plane to create extrudes and cut-outs relative to a cylindrical face.\u00a0 This is easily done in SolidWorks.\u00a0 Simply create\u00a0a two-line sketch on a plane or a planar face, add an angular\u00a0dimension to drive the angle between the lines, then create a plane that uses the cylindrical face and one of the end points of the sketched lines.<\/p>\n<p>To see this in action, please watch the video below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wGBD5D8i0jg?rel=0\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mkt.solidworks.com\/emarketing_enu\/start.swe?SWECmd=InvokeMethod&amp;SWEMethod=StartSS&amp;SWEView=URLRouter&amp;SWEApplet=SSRoute&amp;SWENargs=SSId=1-1794ZYD,SSName=REP+ENG+International+Fundamentals+of+SolidWorks,SSLC=,SSCC=,CID=1-1QK5Y5P,OID=1-17PKDL1,COID=1-1QK5Y5Q,PRO=1-NKZ7N\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"REP_Fundamentals_SolidWorks_600x90\" src=\"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/REP_Fundamentals_SolidWorks_600x90.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you may need to create a tangent plane to create extrudes and cut-outs relative to a cylindrical face.\u00a0 This is easily done in SolidWorks.\u00a0 Simply create\u00a0a two-line sketch on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,5],"tags":[46,29,19,23,37,40,25],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solid-applications","category-solidworks","tag-46","tag-3d-models","tag-cad","tag-design","tag-hints-tips","tag-solid-applications-2","tag-solidworks-2"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}