Advanced features

Linked labels and dimensions

To create labels and dimensions that are linked with the views and sections (similar to the reinforcement views) and update automatically when you move, rotate or delete the views and sections, you can now apply the Label View and Link Dimension Lines to Views tools to views and sections too.

Note: If you use the zoom factors to display a view or section at a different scale, manual dimension lines get dimensions that are the results of the dimensions multiplied by the zoom factor. By linking these dimension lines with the view or section, you can correct the dimensions to appropriate values.

Including axis grids

If the drawing file in which you place a view or section includes a 2D Axis Grid and if at least one point where the axes intersect is in the area of the view or section, you can use the crosshairs to define the height of the axis labels.
The program displays all the axes that intersect the reference axis selected automatically and that pass through a 3D component displayed in the view or section.

To display axes of an axis grid later, you can use the Auto-Display Axes in Views tool. Using this tool, you can display axes in views and sections you saved in a different drawing file or created using the building structure. To do this, select the drawing file with the view or section and the drawing file with the axis grid.

Axis grids created with the new Axis Grid tool cannot be displayed in views or sections yet.

Sections of views or sections

You can now define sections within existing views or sections. To do this, click an existing view or section when you create the clipping path and then define the clipping path within the view or section selected. Allplan takes the height settings of the elements from the existing view or section.