Creating Sections in X, Y, or Z Direction

You can create sections by intersecting surfaces with one or several planes that are parallel to an OmniPlane or any standard plane.

Before you begin: Open a 3D Shape containing surfaces.
  1. In the Analyze panel, click Activate Analysis and Sections .
  2. Click Calculate in the header of the Sections section.

    indicates that the analysis is not active.

    X sections are computed on all elements.

    The Calculate icon turns to indicating that the analysis is active and automatically recomputed on the input objects.

    The Global/Local icon changes to blue indicating that you performed a global analysis on all elements that are visible in the work area.

  3. Increase the Number of Planes.
    The analysis is recomputed.

  4. Select some elements and click .
    The elements are removed from the input geometry and the analysis is recomputed.



    The Global/Local icon changes to grey indicating that you performed a local analysis only on the selected elements.

  5. Click Global/Local to switch between the global and the local analysis.
  6. Click to create a new analysis.
  7. Click to change the color and the style of the analysis.
  8. Select another Orientation and click Calculate .


  9. Switch off the visibility of all sections.
  10. Select Graphical and click 0 Positions in the panel.
  11. Select positions on the geometry and click .

    Depending on the current orientation, the positions are points on the X, Y, or Z axis.

    Sections are calculated through the selected points.



  12. Click to switch on the curvature display.
    A curvature analysis is computed on the sections.

  13. Set the Curvature Result Type.
  14. Dynamically adjust the scaling and the density of the sections display.
    1. Press and hold the u key.
    2. Move the mouse over the analysis plot until it highlights, and press and hold the left mouse button.
    3. Move the mouse horizontally to change the density.
    4. Move the mouse vertically to change the scaling.