Section

The Section command creates a planar curve or points resulting from the intersection of a defined cutting plane through objects.

Steps

1. Select objects.
2. Pick the start of the section plane.
3. Pick the end of the section.

Section curves and points are created by intersecting the selected objects with the section plane, which is perpendicular to the construction plane.

4. Press Enter when you finish creating sections.

Command-line options

AssignLayersBy

The AssignLayersBy option specifies the layer for the contour curves and points.

CurrentLayer

The output will be on the current layer.

InputObject

Contour curves and points will be on the same layer as the input objects.

GroupObjectsByContourPlane=Yes/No

The GroupObjectsByContourPlane option specifies whether or not contour on the same contour plane will be grouped.

JoinCurves

The JoinCurves option specifies how contour curves created from polysurfaces will be joined.

ByPolysurface

Curves in the same contour plane created from a polysurface will be joined.

ByContourPlane

All curves in the same contour plane will be joined.

None

No curve joining.

ExtendSection=Yes/No

The ExtendSection option specifies whether or not the section curves will automatically be created for all selected objects as though the drawn section plane extended through them.

See also

Create curves from other objects


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