Hi Ted,
In my experience, ImplicitPlane is very reliable and robust. ImplicitPlane should work 100% of the time, unlike ImplicitEquation, which (in my opinion) uses an algorithm that has a few shortcomings.
-Paul
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Error with multiple use of custom answer checker
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