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Section view

Slice through your model to see inside joints, grooves, holes and walls. It only changes the view, not your design.

  • Section viewPart Studio toolbar, at the right
What other CAD programs call it
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Section view slices through your model like a knife, so you can look inside it: at a joint, at the groove that holds a panel, at how deep a hole goes, or at the walls of a part you have shelled. It only changes what you see. Your design is not cut.

How to use it#

  1. Click Section view in the toolbar. The model is cut through the middle, and the view turns to look straight at the cut.
  2. On the Section panel, choose which way to cut: X, Y or Z.
  3. Drag the slider to move the cut through the model.
  4. Click ⇄ to see the other half.
  5. Click Section view again, or ✕ on the panel, to see the whole model.

Options#

OptionWhat it does
XCuts across the width.
YCuts front to back.
ZCuts across the height, like slicing a cake into layers. You look down on the cut.
SliderMoves the cut. The number is where the cut is, in mm from the origin.
⇄Shows the other half, and turns the view to face it.

Where the cut goes through solid material, the cut faces are striped, like the hatching on a section drawing, so you can tell solid material from empty space.

Tips#

  • You can still turn and zoom the view while the section is on, to look into the cut from an angle.
  • While you sketch, the whole model shows again. The section comes back when you finish the sketch.
  • To measure a wall or a groove you can see in the section, use Measure.
  • To show a section on paper, add a section view to your engineering drawing.

If it does not work#

  • I can only see the outside. The cut may be past the end of the part. Drag the slider back towards the middle.
  • I cannot see the cut faces. Click ⇄, or turn the view so you are looking at the cut.