About Clipping View or Annotation Planes

A 3D shape can be clipped according to the active view or annotation plane.

The 3D shape can be clipped according to:

• Front View
• Section View
• Section Cut View
• Aligned Section View or Section Cut
• Offset Section View or Section Cut

Important: The clipping orientation is defined by: The normal of a view/annotation plane. The normal of first view/annotation plane in an Aligned Section View/Section Cut or Offset Section View/Section Cut.

Defines the sectioning properties like background color, pattern of a clipped section.

By default, the Custom color defined in sectioning properties is applied to the section. You can specify the required color for the clipping section.

To customize the representation of the clipping section, when a material is applied, edit the drafting domain node under the dedicated material sub-node in the tree:

• You can select Hatching, Dotting, or Coloring.
• You can set their parameters as per the requirement.
• When the same hatching definition is applied to several parts of an assembly, the hatching orientation follows the standard defined by your administrator.

Important: Only Hatching, Coloring, and Dotting are applicable. The clipping is only displayed in the active window of your session. View/annotation plane Show/Hide status does not affect the clipping.

When you select a view or annotation plane, an aligned section view or section cut, or an offset section view or section cut, this one is automatically clipped.

The following selection modes are supported:

• In the tree

• In the geometry window

• Through a tolerancing capture which contains at least one view/annotation plane

Important: This behavior is only available when the 3DMaster query is selected . See 3D Annotation Query. Material properties defined for Cutting Plane are taken into account. When you select a tolerancing capture containing several view or annotation planes, only its active view or annotation plane, an aligned section view or section cut, or an offset section view or section cut is clipped. View or annotation plane selection overrides Cutting Plane behavior. In view/annotation plane multi-selection context, clipping is applied on the last selected view/annotation plane only, View or annotation plane Show/Hide status does not affect the clipping.