Auto Sections

[CARMELHILL]

Can anyone, maybe Panthony, post a few examples of their automatic sections. Panthony posted some of his auto elevations in the past that put me on the right track towards using VW to it's full potential. I think I might be wasting time the way I am doing the sections. Or maybe email a file that shows the way you are doing it. I am having VW do them automatically but then I find myself redrawing a lot over the Annotations of the viewport. Not sure if this is right.

I am finally doing the elevations the automatic way any they are coming out great.

Thank you.

My email is: carmelhill@optonline.net

[panthony]

Edward,

As your modeling of a structure contains more and more 3 dimensional objects any sections you cut will reflect the detail of the model. The more complex your 3D model gets the information must be processed in cutting sections which can slow down the ability to quickly add items such as text, dimensions and misc. graphics in section viewports. So I tend to create the majority of my 3D modeling to get elevations to my level of expectation and when it comes to sections I turn off much of the solid modeling and concentrate on walls, floor slabs, ceiling and roof objects in order to get the important section cut profile I need. Adding notes, dimensions and graphics is much quicker when I need to show structure detail and components. I have also needed to show framing cut sections for floors and ceilings...which really slows down the screen refresh and is frustrating to deal with so I just grunt through it. After awhile you learn what work best for you and tend to stick with success through trial and error.

I wish I could give you a trick that made it easier but sections are a time consuming part of the process with no cheap way out, however VW does give you some really nice tools to get things going in the right direction.

Pa