  Detailed magnetization measurements, M(T,H,theta), were performed on single
crystals of TbPtIn and TmAgGe (both members of the hexagonal Fe_2P/ZrNiAl
structure type), for the magnetic field H applied perpendicular to the
crystallographic c axis. These data allowed us to identify, for each compound,
the easy-axes for the magnetization, which coincided with high symmetry
directions ([120] for TbPtIn and [110] for TmAgGe). For fixed orientations of
the field along each of the two six-fold symmetry axes, a number of
magnetically ordered phases is being revealed by M(H,T) measurements below T_N.
Moreover, T ~ 2 K, M(H)|_theta measurements for both compounds (with H applied
parallel to the basal plane), as well as T = 20 K data for TbPtIn, reveal five
metamagnetic transitions with simple angular dependencies: H_{ci,j} ~
1/cos(theta +/- phi), where phi = 0^0 or 60^0. The high field magnetization
state varies with theta like 2/3*mu_{sat}(R^{3+})*cos(theta), and corresponds
to a crystal field limited saturated paramagnetic, CL-SPM, state. Analysis of
these data allowed us to model the angular dependence of the locally saturated
magnetizations M_{sat} and critical fields H_c with a three coplanar Ising-like
model, in which the magnetic moments are assumed to be parallel to three
adjacent easy axes. Furthermore, net distributions of moments were inferred
based on the measured data and the proposed model.
