{"id":2272,"date":"2009-04-28T22:28:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T05:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Solid-Edge-Tips-amp-Tricks-Select-Assembly-Reference-Planes\/ba-p\/333925"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:17:55","slug":"solid-edge-tips-tricks-select-assembly-reference-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/solid-edge-tips-tricks-select-assembly-reference-planes\/","title":{"rendered":"Solid Edge Tips &#038; Tricks &#8211; Select Assembly Reference Planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>My apologies for this edition of Tip &amp; Tricks coming late on Tuesday night. We&#8217;ve been busy working on announcements about&#8230;well, I can&#8217;t tell you&#8230;YET. We&#8217;ll just say they&#8217;re are coming soon <IMG style=\"border:0\" src=\"http:\/\/siemens.pmhclients.com\/images\/smileys\/wink.gif\" alt=\"wink\" width=\"19\" height=\"19\" \/><BR \/><BR \/>Russ tells me that this tip &amp; trick is about selecting assembly reference planes. While In place activate (IPA) into a part or subassembly, you can locate the top level\u2019s reference planes by holding down the SHIFT key.<BR \/><BR \/>We&#8217;ve done four of these so far and all my &#8220;Edgers&#8221; and &#8220;Edgelings&#8221; have been quiet. We want to hear from you! Are these useful? Is there a tip or trick you have that you would like us to cover? Post a comment or email me at susan dot cinadr at siemens dot com.<BR \/><BR \/>&nbsp;<IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CBh6WL03Tl4\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>Note: The video above is pulled from YouTube. If you subscribe to <A href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SiemensPLM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Siemens PLM channel<\/A>, you can be notified right away when we post the latest video from our Tips &amp; Tricks series. Recently, I created a playlist on YouTube just for the Tips &amp; Tricks, check it out <A href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/view_play_list?p=BDBAE0719D7C3456\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">here<\/A>. We also realize that some of you do not have access to YouTube, so you can always check out the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/velocity\/solidedge\/demos.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Solid Edge Demo Page<\/A>.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My apologies for this edition of Tip &amp; Tricks coming late on Tuesday night. We&#8217;ve been busy working on announcements about&#8230;well, I can&#8217;t tell you&#8230;YET. We&#8217;ll just say they&#8217;re are coming soon  &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}