How to Create Construction Planes in FreeCAD - Create a Datum Plane

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In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create and use construction planes in FreeCAD (yes, the free 3D modeling software anyone can download and use). Construction planes are essential when you want to design more complex and advanced 3D models, and I’ll guide you step by step through different methods:

✅ Using the basic coordinate planes (XY, XZ, YZ)
✅ Creating a plane based on a solid’s face
✅ Offsetting and rotating planes for angled geometry
✅ Defining planes through points, lines, and edges
✅ Working with planes at custom positions and orientations

By the end of this video, you’ll know several practical techniques for creating construction planes and applying them to sketches, pockets, and solid operations.

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