Engines | Section

Section Manager

This feature of VCollab Pro provides the Dynamic Section Manager. This tool helps to view both two and three-dimensional sections of the model. It provides the user with various options to manipulate Section Plane and measure the distances.

Engines | Section | 3D Section | Slice
 

It pops up Section Manager Dialog as below.

Create                     : Creates a sectional plane according to the specifications.

Section Locations    : Provides Information on Section Location through a popup dialog as below.

 

 

Section Plane

Choose a standard plane among XY, YZ, ZX.

2D Section

Displays the section in a poped up 2D section window.

Slice

2 parallel planes are created. The Model between two planes called Front and Back planes will be visible.

Show Planes

Front and Back Planes will be displayed with shading.

Edges

Intersection of model  with Front and Back planes will be drawn and visible in both the place.

Cut Away / Invert

Two sides of clipping (Hither / Yawn).

Translate

Two sliders are provided to translate Front or First plane and Back plane.

Rotate

Two sliders are provided to rotate the plane with respect to U parametric axis and V parametric axis respectively.

 

 

 

Loaded Model

 

Click Create

 

Created Section Plane

 

 

Enable Show Plane

Section Plane with shade

Enable Edges

Edges are drawn solid in section plane.

Toggle Invert

Inverted clip and section

 

Click Slice

Back Plane is created parallel to Front or First Plane.

 

 

Enable 2D Section

  • It pops up a 2D viewer in which line sets of section plane will be displayed

 

Exporting 2D model to DXF
  • Click CreateSection in 2D viewer

  • Click Export as DXF.

 

Measuring between two points in 2D viewer

Zoom Region
  • Select a region to be zoomed

  

Other menus in 2D Viewer

  • Refresh - resets the 2D scene.

  • Section Location - provides information about section

  • Background - provides color picker to change color.