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Hi
What is the fastes way to make a plane parallel with ZX with a picked point for the position? I have cut out a part of a facade. Now i need to know the deformation.
Thanks for any answer.

I guess that the 'Level' tool is the best way to achieve this. It will make the plane defined by the 3 points you pick parallel to (XY). The first point is the origin, then the second point should be aligned with the new X direction and the third point with the new Y direction.

Then you can use the 'Edit > Apply Transformation' tool to rotate of 90 degrees about X to make the plane parallel to (XZ).

Thanks for your fast reaction.
The problem is when i use
"the 'Edit > Apply Transformation' tool to rotate of 90 degrees about X to make the plane parallel to (XZ)"
that the plane rotate about the original X axis, and now the plane is about 800 meters from the scandate away.
It's not a option to transform the Scandata to the origin 0, because i need informations about the points in meters over ocean from different points.
Is it possible to turn the plane over a defined point?

Well, it's not very handy but to rotate around a given point P you can do this in 3 steps:
- Translate the cloud of -P
- Rotate the cloud
- Translate the origin back to the original position (+P) (this last translation can be input at the same time as the above rotation with the 'Apply transformation' tool)

Ufff, your right. That's very unhandy!
Is it possible to change the command "Plane" in "Primitive factory" like on my picture? That would be much more easyer and faster.

The 2.8 beta version has now a 'Edit > Plane > Create' method that lets you do this.