Clipping path - defining a vertical section

Tool(s): Clipping Path

To define a vertical section

1. Click Clipping Path (How).
   

   Activate Clipping Path in one of the following ways

   • Actionbar:Role Architecture Task Elements Task area Sections

   • Menu bar: Create Architecture General: Roofs, Planes, Sections

   • Palette: Tools Create area in the following module(s):

   General: Roofs, Planes, Sections

   Views and Sections

2. The Create Clipping Path palette opens. Select the Basic method for Input and click within the graphics to select the Vertical section.
3. Define more parameters for the section in the Create Clipping Path palette.
4. Enter the points for the clipping line. The clipping line can have right-angular bends in it.

   Note: To achieve right-angular bends, enter the end point of the next section of the clipping line. Allplan then adds the right-angular bend automatically. If the end point of the next section is perpendicular to the existing clipping line, Allplan tells you that this is an Illegal point.
   Example

   

   

   1 First point of clipping path
   2 Second point of clipping path
   3 Third point of clipping path

   A Clipping path
   B Point is added automatically

5. To finish defining the clipping line, press ESC.
6. Define the section depth and viewing direction by clicking an appropriate point.
7. To view the section, click Section Display (How).
   

   Activate Section Display in one of the following ways

   • Menu bar: View
   • Toolbar List box on Viewport toolbar

Note: The label and clipping line symbols can be moved independently of each other.

Tip: You can change the clipping line using Stretch Entities. This is only possible if you have selected the Section object option in the Create Clipping Path palette. You can use handles to modify the section object and the entire clipping path.

Tip: You can modify the clipping path by selecting Modify Clipping Path or Properties on the shortcut menu.