How do you move a plane?

I hope this should be a fairly straight forward question, so here goes...

I have drawn in Solidworks 2004 a 4ft length of pipe around 8" in Diameter. I want to seal the bore off, with a round plate about and inch before the end of the pipe. I am having difficulty in generating a plane or surface with which to draw on, other than at the end where there is a 'naturally' occuring one.

I am very much a novice so any help would gratefully be received

Mike

Mike, i have never used SW04 before but you should be able to create a plane as opposed to moving one. Im sorry i cant give you an exact answer because im not sure what the layout of the software was like in 04. I would guess there is a plane option on the Insert Menu. What you will do is select a plane or the end of your pipe and enter your 1" offset.

Wouldn't you first have to display the plane's handles? Then it would be a matter of dragging the plane by its edge to the new location. I think the handles can be displayed by clicking on the edge of the plane or click on the plane's name in the Feature Manager design tree.

Thanks... thats done the job a treat.

Mike