Creating an Offset Section View/Section Cut

You can create an offset section view or an offset section cut using a cutting profile as cutting plane. Offset section views/section cuts are specifically aimed at preparing views for 2D extraction.

Offset section views/offset section cuts let you show several features that do not lie in a straight line by offsetting or bending the cutting plane, which is often desirable when sectioning through irregular objects.

Before you begin: Open an existing 3D shape.
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About View/Annotation Planes
Creating an Aligned Section View/Section Cut

  1. Click Offset Section View/Section Cut

    The Offset View Creation dialog box appears.



  2. Specify the type of view that you want to create: Section View or Section Cut. For the purpose of this scenario, select Section Cut.

  3. Select the profile that will be used as cutting plane. You can only select a sketch which is valid for the type of view to be created.

    Important:

    At this stage, you can also click the Sketch to sketch a new profile to use as cutting plane.

    For more information on using this method, you can refer to Creating an Aligned Section View/Section Cut: the procedure is similar when creating offset section views/section cuts.

    The offset section cut is previewed: it is made up of two distinct section cut views/annotation planes.



  4. Click Invert Normal button to invert the normal of the offset section cut: this actually inverts the normal of the two section cut views/annotation planes that make up the offset section cut.



  5. Click OK in the Offset View Creation dialog box.

    The offset section cut is now created and listed in the specification tree; it cannot be activated. Each section cut/annotation plane that make it up can be activated and behaves like a regular section cut/annotation plane. Each section cut is associative to the sketched line that defines it.



    You can now start creating annotations in each section cut of the offset section cut. If you then extract the view to 2D in the Generative Drafting workbench, all the annotations defined in each component view will be generated.

  6. Optionally, right-click Offset Section Cut.1 in the specification tree and select Invert Normal in the contextual menu if you want to invert the normal of the offset section cut: this actually inverts the normal of all the section cuts/annotation planes that make up the offset section cut.

    Important:
    • The Invert Normal contextual command is only available if there is no annotation attached to any component view of the offset section view/section cut.
    • You cannot perform the following operations for the component sections views/section cuts of an offset section view/section cut: Delete, Invert Normal and Change View Support.