DesignSeries00058.pngAdvanced Section Viewport Properties

Advanced properties define the extent and attributes of the sheet layer or design layer section viewport. Specify them when the viewport is created, or after the viewport has been created; edit the properties from either the Object Info palette or the Properties dialog box.

Finite sections are useful when you want to create interior elevations. For example, draw a section line across a particular room of a building, and set the layer visibility only for the room’s floor to create an interior elevation of only that room. For an even more precise interior elevation, use a clip cube to create the section viewport; the extents are automatically set according to the clip cube’s shape.

The X, Y position of perspective section views is at the center of the section line. The Z position depends on the height range selection (finite or infinite).

To specify the advanced properties of a section viewport:

  1. From the Create Section Viewport dialog box, click Advanced Section Properties.

  2. Alternatively, select the viewport, and then from the Object Info palette or the Properties dialog box, click Advanced Properties.

    The Advanced Section Properties dialog box opens.

  3. Click the Extent tab to specify either an infinite section view, or the length, depth, and height of a finite section viewport.

  4. Click the Attributes tab to specify the appearance of objects on and beyond the section plane. Objects on the section plane can maintain an individual profile, or can be divided into structural and non-structural groups to display them differently according to class settings.

  5. Certain 3D objects can be designated as structural, allowing their appearance to merge with other structural objects on the section plane. Merged objects display as a single unit with one continuous fill. The following objects can be designated as structural by selecting Merge with Structural Objects in Sections from the Object Info palette.

        CSG solids (add/subtract/intersect/section)

        Deforms (generic solid)

        Extrudes

        Multiple extrudes

        Extrude along paths

        Chain extrudes

        Tapered extrudes

        Cylinders (extrude)

        Extruded rectangles (extrude)

        Extruded polygons (mesh)

        Meshes

        Subdivisions

        Solids (sphere/cone/hemisphere)

        Sweeps

        Stair structures (top face, bottom face, front face, inside/outside)

        NURBS surfaces

  6. Click the Display tab to specify the section viewport display properties.

  7. Click OK to close the dialog box and save the changes.

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Viewport Properties

Creating Section Viewports

Modifying Viewports

 

 

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