Defining Section Probes

You can create section views to better visualize the structure of a product during a kinematics simulation.

Before you begin: Open a kinematics simulation referencing a mechanism in the Mechanical Systems Experience app. app.
See Also
Creating a Kinematics Scenario
Reviewing Scenario Results
  1. Click Section Probe .
    The Sectioning dialog box, the section cut plane, and a context toolbar appear.

    For more information, see Design Review User's Guide: Creating a Section.

  2. Specify the section's name.
  3. Left-click and move the section cut to adjust it.

    Tip: You can add or remove products by clicking them in the work area.

    You can reposition the section using the Manipulator, the Robot, or the context toolbar.

    For more information, see Design Review User's Guide: Creating a Section.

    Important: The Behavior tab is not available for the section probe as the probe's behavior is driven by the kinematics scenario.

  4. On the context toolbar, click Activate/Deactivate Secondary Viewer .
    The Secondary Viewer panel appears with the following options:
    Fills the section cut with the colors of the sectioned component
    Detects clashes
    / Unlocks or locks the viewer point
    Switches to the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) window
  5. Click Activate/Deactivate Secondary Viewer to close the panel.
  6. Click OK.

The probe appears in the tree, under the Probes category. By default, the section probe is included in the current scenario. A plane representation appears under each section probe of the current scenario. The section views are calculated and displayed during the computation or preview of a scenario. For more information, see Computing and Generating Results and Running the Preview.