SPECIFYING A PLANE BY USING OF THE DIHEDRAL ANGLE

Abstract

Sometimes, in the drawing's process of a part, it is necessary to be determine a plane by using the value of the dihedral angle between this and another plane, which is already known. The authors did not find in the literature solutions for this problem, but they observed that can be easily found only methods for measuring of the dihedral angle. Starting from these considerations, in this paper, the authors propose two solutions for specifying a plane by using the dihedral angle, then compares them and recommend one of the two. Finally, the authors present the solutions offered for this problem by the computer programs when 3D model is used.

Keywords

• descriptive geometry
• dihedral angles
• Inventor
• AutoCAD