Adjust ground plane settings

On the ribbon, access the Ground Plane Settings dialog box.

• On the View tab Appearance panel Ground Plane drop down list, click Settings.

Note: When in an assembly and editing in place, the only visible plane is the parent document ground plane. Open the document separately to access the ground plane visibility.

Reorient the ground plane

• Modify the ViewCube orientation. Orient the camera to look down toward a location for the ground plane. Then, in the ViewCube context menu, select “Set current view as Top”.

Position the ground plane

1. On the View tab Appearance panel Ground Plane drop down list, click Settings... . The ground plane, if not visible, displays. You can see adjustments you make relative to the model display.
2. The ground plane origin triad displays at the model origin. To enable positioning changes, select Manual Adjustment. In the graphics window, click and drag a triad arrow to use directionally constrained positioning, and the center sphere to use three-dimensional positioning for the origin.

   While changing position, the object snapping effect is activated, simplifying model vertex selection.

   Note: The triad does not accept rotational input.
   

   The cursor snaps to model vertices, but selections are non-associative.

Resize the ground plane manually

1. On the ribbon View tab Appearance panel, Ground Plane drop down list, click Settings.
2. In the dialog box, Select Manual Adjustment.
3. In the graphics window, select a ground plane boundary line or corner, and drag to resize it.

Note: To set the ground plane to resize automatically, select Automatically adjust to model. This option also automatically adjusts the location to the lowest point of the model geometry.