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| Menu location |
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| Part Design → Create a datum → Create a datum plane |
| Workbenches |
| PartDesign |
| Default shortcut |
| None |
| Introduced in version |
| 0.17 |
| See also |
| PartDesign Point, PartDesign Line |
Creates a datum plane which can be used as reference for sketches or other datum geometry. Sketches can be attached to datum planes.

Datum Plane crossing 3 corners of the Cube with a Cylinder sketched on it using the Datum Plane as its X-Y Plane.
A datum plane can only be created inside of a Body. Every body has an origin, which is hidden by default. To be able to refer to the origin base planes, make the origin visible. You can do this before creating a datum plane.
Double-click the DatumPlane label in the Model tree or right-click and select Edit datum in the contextual menu to edit its parameters. For more details about Attachment mode and Attachment offset, see Part EditAttachment.
The default diffuse color and transparency of PartDesign datums is controlled by the DefaultDatumColor fine-tuning parameter.
Datum planes have their uses:
For support of a single sketch, they are basically redundant. They suffer from the Topological naming problem as much as sketches.