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    Placing Parts in Assembly using Reference Planes

    You have to be a little twisted to do this work and I've been concerned about slipping over the edge, but I'm relieved to hear that others experienced the same .par placing issue. I'm still looking for that option of saving the .par without displaying the planes, and retaining the option of...
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    Placing Parts in Assembly using Reference Planes

    Hi again, It took awhile and a stab in the dark but I seem to have answered my own question. I've found that if I open the .par for editing from the .asm environment, display the planes, then return to .asm, then again display the planes using fwc's suggestion, that the planes can be selected...
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    Placing Parts in Assembly using Reference Planes

    Thank's Scott Tried all options and combinations but no luck.
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    Placing Parts in Assembly using Reference Planes

    Thanks for the response. I don't have any problem displaying any of the elements (planes, sketches, axis', constructions, etc). I can select anything but the planes for positioning. I'm wondering if there's something new in V14 that I'm missing, or if it's a hardware compatability issue. I never...
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    Placing Parts in Assembly using Reference Planes

    Hello everybody. I'm using V14 on a P3-933, 256mb RAM, Matrox G450 (updated drivers), NT4 SP6. (not the best but it functions). I can't seem to use the reference planes to align parts. I never had this issue with V12. Aligning faces works fine But it's a pain to calculate a difference in width...

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