Creating views and sections

You already know how to create a view or section from the objects derived from the building structure. Having numerous advantages, these new tools simplify and speed up your workflow considerably. Allplan creates the new view, section or clipping path in the current drawing file. You can also save the resulting hidden line image to an empty drawing file.
When creating a section in the new Views and Sections module, you do not need to define the clipping path in advance. When you select the Create Section tool, the Create Clipping Path palette always opens first. As soon as you have defined all the parameters and entered the clipping path, depth and viewing direction, the Create Clipping Path palette closes and the Generate Section palette opens. As you can see, a preview of the section is already attached to the crosshairs. If the selected drawing files include a clipping path you want to use for the section, you can close the Create Clipping Path palette without entering anything.

You can find another new feature in the Filter area of the Generate Section palette. In addition to selecting a Clipping path based on its section identifier, you have the following options:

• Click New... to create a new clipping path in the current drawing file. The Create Clipping Path palette opens automatically. After you have created the clipping path, you are back in the Generate Section palette.
• Click Select... to select an existing clipping path by clicking it in the workspace.

  

More new parameters for creating views or sections:

• Resizing: By entering factors, you can resize the section in the x-direction or y-direction or in both directions. A factor < 1 reduces the view; a factor > 1 enlarges the view.
• Anchor point for preview: Use this to define the position of the anchor point.
• Label: Click the button to open the Label palette, where you can define settings for the label of the view or section.
• Result of hidden line image: Use this to save the resulting hidden line image to a different drawing file. Click the Drawing files button to open the Select target drawing file dialog box. Select an empty drawing file for saving the hidden line image.