Floor Plan Section Cut Line

That s what a plan view is after all.

Floor plan section cut line.

If the section line is invisible change the floor plan scale factor back to a value that enable you to see the section line. In your floor plan view you can step your cutting planes by selecting the camera s symbol to highlight it. It displays a list of section views and floor plan views. In the properties locate the parameter hide at scales coarser than.

Select the section line. Therefor you see in the cut anything that the plane passes through. Figure 6 28 shows how building section cuts are indicated on floor plans. Interior and exterior elevations are noted on the floor plan in much the same way as building section cuts figure 6 29.

You will see a diamond handle where the break has been placed and a square edit handle between the break and the clip plane s end edit handle. If you have not setup any views before choosing this option the dialog box will be empty. Adapt the value of this parameter to avoid the section line to be hidden when changing the scaling factor to the correct. The plan is typically cut at a height of about 4 feet but the architect drawing the plan may cut it at a different height.

Off the floor was a guideline that had to be fudged all the time in order to produce the clearest possible floor plan. It is also called a plan which is a measured plane typically projected at the floor height of 4 ft 1 2 m as opposed to an elevation which is a measured plane projected from the side of a building along its height or a section or cross section where a building is cut along an axis to reveal the interior structure. This means that you have an imaginary plane cutting through the building at an elevation of 4 feet above the floor. Click the break line edit button and then click in the middle of one of the clip planes to place a break.

To create stepped cutting planes. The direction of the plane through which the section is cut is often represented on plan drawings and elevations by a line of long and short dashes called a section plane. Back in the pencil and mylar days the convention that a plan is a horizontal section cut at 3 ft.