More About Sections From Two Planes

There are a few things that you need to know when creating section views or section cuts using two existing 3D planes as supports.

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Creating a Section From Two Planes

The two section views or cuts have a number of common characteristics. However, the first-created view has a few characteristics of its own. To enable you to distinguish between the views, their name is suffixed ([1], [2]) to indicate their rank: the suffix [1] indicates the first-created view.

The first-created view has the following characteristics:


  • Its origin and normal are identical to those of its related 3D plane.
  • Its H axis is on its related 3D plane and oriented towards the intersection of both planes.

The secondly-created view has the following characteristic:


  • It has no frame.

The two views share the following characteristics:


  • Their V axes are along the intersection of both planes.
  • They share the same origin in the layout sheet, their local axes (H and V) overlap.
  • They have folding lines which correspond to the intersection of both planes.
  • Their axes and origins are not associative to the 3D planes.
  • They cannot be linked in position with another view.