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grip that appears when you select the connector. The direction arrow of a
connector indicates the direction that pipe, duct, conduit, or cable tray will
be drawn from the connector.
When using the Face option to manage the location of a connector
parametrically, you will need to create additional geometry that gives you
much more accurate control over the location of the connector within the
family.
Whenyouplaceconnectors byusingtheWorkPlane optionshownin
Figure
19.18
, they may not be facing in the right direction. If you placed the
connector by using a named reference plane and selecting it from the list,
as shown in
Figure 19.19
,
the blue arrows grip will not work to flip the
direction.Instead,youwillhavetorotatetheplanewithwhichtheconnector
is associated or redraw the plane in the opposite direction. If you are going
to place connectors by named reference planes, it is probably a good idea
to remember that you should be drawing your reference planes clockwise.
This way, the orientation of the connectors will be always defaulted
appropriately.
Figure 19.18
Placing a connector by work plane
Figure 19.19
Placing a connector by work plane using the Name
pull-down
ThebenefitofusingtheWorkPlaneoptionisthatyoucanlocateaconnector
anywhere on the plane. In case you created your reference plane in the
