Hi All,

Sorry for not introducing myself in my first post. I am sudhir and I am working for Ingersoll Rand ( I have been working on SE since last 6 months)

The version we use is SE V17. (I dunno what service pack we run, I can get that info from our IT guys) I am not sure if V17 has got the Virtual functionality..so I dint try that, though the idea of creating a dummy first part and using its planes as reference for other parts really did work. Thank you for that.

To answer the other questions...
- The XYZ planes are visible, but they wont let them to be picked for selection and this problem has been there always
- I am not able select the planes from the edgebar too..
- I am not aware of the autoconnect function

I guess there should be some other direct means to solve this problem, if it is not an inherent bug in SE V17 or earlier versions...!!

Sudhir.