how to use section viewport to create floor plans

[omivankenomi]

dear all

I hope somebody can help me with the following problem.

I have created an entire 3d model of a house in sketchup.

The import into vectorworks works fine and I managed to get some pretty nice section drawings out of it.

My main problem is now to get the floor plans from the model.

The model is all polygons due to the sketchup import.

Is there any way of creating a rotated section line to get a plan viewport.

Thanks guys

omi

[gmm18]

Easy to do.

Create a viewport of a side view of the model.

Now do a section viewport of that vp, cutting across to get a plan view.

[omivankenomi]

thanks that works great.

[JohnMacDonaldArchitect]

When I try this (at step two), and click "create section viewport" it jumps back to plan and I can't make a section viewport looking up at the ceiling. I made the initial elevation VP on a design layer. When I make the initial VP on the sheet and select it then choose "create section viewport" it says that this is an illegal object for making a section. What am I missing???

Krista

VW2013, MAC OS. 10.8.4

[Kevin McAllister]

I don't think you can make a section viewport from a section viewport. Create a side (left or right) viewport and make your section from that.

KM