About 3D Outputs

You can create as many 3D planes as needed from a design view.

You can create 3D planes:

• From any line contained in a design view, in a 3D shape representation containing a layout.
• From a line which is already included in other 3D planes or profiles (in other words, any 2D geometry can be included in several 3D outputs).

You can use 3D planes to create:

• Part Design or Generative Shape Design features.
• 3D profiles on a plane parallel to the view support plane. For more information, refer to 3D Profiles.

You cannot create 3D planes:

• In isometric views (because they are not design views).
• In a product layout (i.e. in a product representation).

When creating 3D planes, remember the following points:

• You can only create a plane perpendicular to the support plane of the current view.
• The 3D plane is associative to the line you select when creating it: if the line is modified, the support plane will be recomputed when updating the plane (by exiting the 2D Layout for 3D Design app or using the Update 3D Profile command) to reflect the modifications.

You can create as many 3D profiles as needed from a design view.

Within a design view, only part of the geometry is needed for defining 3D shapes: for those elements that do not need to be defined as 3D shapes, a 2D definition is sufficient. 3D profiles enable you to specify the geometry you want to output in 3D.

You can create 3D profiles on the support plane of the view, as well as on any plane parallel to the view support plane. You can use an existing plane, or define a parallel plane on the fly during the 3D profile creation.

You cannot create 3D profiles for geometry contained in isometric views (because they are not design views).

3D profiles:

• Can be created for any 2D geometry contained in a design view, in a 3D shape representation containing a layout.
• Can contain 2D geometry which is already included in other 3D profile or plane (in other words, any 2D geometry can be included in several 3D outputs).
• Can be updated independently of the layout. During an update operation, a given 3D profile is only impacted when the 2D geometry is modified.
• Have their own graphic properties, independent from the graphic properties of the 2D geometry which makes up the profile.
• Let you expose in a 3D shape a set of connected curves or a set of points.
• Can be used to create Part Design or Generative Shape Design features.
• Can be created within a PartBody, regardless of hybrid design setting. On this point, 3D profiles are similar to sketcher output profiles.

You can edit a 3D profile by right-clicking it from the tree and selecting Profile definition. This command is only accessible in the 3D window.

You can create as many 3D axes as needed from a design view.

You can create:

• A 3D axis only using a point created in a 2D layout view.
• Several 3D axes on a single point.

The created 3D axis is displayed in the geometry by an infinite dot dashed line.

When creating 3D axes, remember the following points:

• You can only create an axis perpendicular to the support plane of the current view.
• The 3D axis is associative to the point you select when creating it.

This topic makes a number of remarks that are common to 3D planes, 3D profiles and 3D axes.

• Of all elements created from 2D geometry in 2D Layout for 3D Design, only 3D profiles, 3D planes and 3D axes belong to the current 3D shape.
• Note that 3D profiles, 3D planes and 3D axes are created under the current 3D shape only when working in a hybrid design environment, that is when the Enable hybrid design inside part bodies and bodies option is selected in Me > Preferences > Infrastructure > 3D Shape Infrastructure > 3D Shape section (which is the case by default). Otherwise, when this option is not selected, 3D profiles, 3D planes and 3D axes are created in geometrical sets or ordered geometrical sets.
• Use-edges cannot be used as an input geometry to create 3D profiles, 3D planes or 3D axes.
• You can right-click a 2D line from the geometry area in the active 2D layout design view, and choose the Selected object > 3D Profile or the Selected object > 3D Plane commands.
• You can right-click a point from the geometry area in the active 2D layout design view and select Point.x object > 3D Axis.
• Deleting a 3D output does not delete the original 2D geometry in the layout. A 3D output can only be deleted from the 3D window.
• Deleting the 2D geometry used as input when defining a 3D output in a view (which can only be done from the 2D Layout for 3D Design app) prevents the 3D output from being rebuilt and then you need to deactivate or isolate it.
• It is not possible to paste a non-isolated 3D output in the As specified in Part document format, but only in the As Result format.
• Powercopy is not available for 3D outputs.