PlantSight Enterprise Help

To Create Section Views

Follow these steps to create section views in the Viewer.
  1. Open an iTwin in the Viewer.
  2. Click Section Tools ( ).

    This opens a menu with four section tools:

  3. Select Section by Plane, and create the cutting plane by hovering the pointer over an object until part of it is highlighted, and then click when the plane glyph attached to the pointer is correctly oriented.

    The cutting plane appears in the view.

  4. Click and drag on the green arrow to move the clip plane.
  5. Click away from the clip plane to turn off its display.

    You can now view the sectioned objects.

The bottom of the 3D View has a toolbar with several tools that work with the Section Tools.

  1. Click Section Tools,

    This opens the Section Tools pop up settings tab.

  2. Click on Section Handles.

    This will turn on the display of the current section's handles so you can edit the extents of the section view.

  3. Click Clear Sections.

    Clears sections from the view, restoring the full un-sectioned model.