Set the view normal to the cplane?

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Hello,
Is there a simple method to align the view to be normal to the cplane that has been set? For example, I set the plane to an object, and I would like the view to be normal to the defined cplane.
Thank you.
Paul.

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The command Plan should do thisā€¦ --Mitch

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Thank you, Mitch. That works. The steps I take are: set the cplane to the object, then set the view to Plan. This gives me a view perpendicular to the cplane in the viewport.
I appreciate the advice.
Paul.

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I am having trouble with this technique. I am working in a detail view. Universal Construction Planes are active (not Standard Construction Planes, Options > Modeling Aids).

I set the Cplane using 3 points in the perspective view and save that Cplane as a named CPlane. When I use _SetView > Cplane > Top, it works correctly. However, when I use the same procedure in the detail view, the view seems to be using World coordinates, not Cplane coordinates.

Iā€™ve tried re-starting Rhino.

Iā€™ve included 2 images below of the details views after Iā€™ve applied the _SetView > Cplane commands. As you can see by the Cplane coordinate widget, the views are not normal to the Cplane.

Thanks for any advice you can provide.

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Solved: turned on ā€œStandard construction planesā€ in Rhino Options, activated the appropriate named CPlane within the detail view, _SetView > CPlane > Top.

Anyone have an explanation of why this only works with Standard construction planes? Is this a bug?

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Thanks so much - this just saved me.

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The standard construction planes setting still does not allow me to do whatā€™s needed.

I often work on design components that are in relation by 45Ā°. This makes for difficulty everytime Iā€™ve to make some changes on the 45Ā° angled components. I can set a Cplane to object but then I canā€™t easily use keycombos to navigate the associated views.

What I want to do is set a ā€˜worldā€™ or whatever that reletive to the object and then be able to freely switch views that remain othagonally associated with the set CPlane.

As It works now I can use command +1/2/3/4/5 for the T/F/L/R/B views.

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I used command+opt+1/2/3/4/5 to get the world Cplane views

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What am I missing here?