JOG SECTION LINES

[Jim Smith]

I know that one may "Jog" a section line to be able to show different conditions. What I can't get the Section Line Tool to do is to show this "jog". It seems to stop showing the path of the section cut at the point of the point the section cut moves at right angles. I could have sworn that one could do this in the past, but I may be remembering having to doctor this up in annotation. 

 

So did the section line tool never show these "Jogs"?

 

Also related: Whenever I move the location of a Section - it always messes up. Should the rule be "Never touch a section; just create a new section"?

[Boh]

I just tried creating a jogged section line on VW2016 and seem to be having the same problem - it only shows the first section on the section line. You can however subsequently still add additional sections and the "jogs" will then show.

 

Re moving section lines. Yes I wonder how others do this. Moving the section line "sideways" also moves the viewport view the same direction but of course the VP annotations or crop object don't move. Each time I have to go and carefully edit the crop and annotations back to where they should be in relation to the view which is a pain. Does someone out there have a technique to moving section lines that doesn't mess up VP annotations/crops?

[Boh]

On 23 February 2018 at 1:04 PM, Boh said:

 

Re moving section lines. Yes I wonder how others do this. Moving the section line "sideways" also moves the viewport view the same direction but of course the VP annotations or crop object don't move. Each time I have to go and carefully edit the crop and annotations back to where they should be in relation to the view which is a pain. Does someone out there have a technique to moving section lines that doesn't mess up VP annotations/crops?

Any feedback on this? I'm often having to edit section markers to get them in the right place on my floor plans but moving them sideways (as I often want to do) stuffs up the alignment of the annotations to section in my section viewport.

[Jim Smith]

One of the reasons I tend to use a workaround by employing the Section Line Marker (The 2D tool) in Annotation is due to these flaws. 

[markdd]

I am sure I did this as a result of an earlier post and found out that, if your edit a regular straight section line to add some jogs, that the updated viewport took the changes.. 

I'm not able to test this at the moment......

[markdd]

Yes. If you apply the jog retrospectively it works well and also shows a "crease" in the viewport where the jog changes direction. I hope I'm understanding what you need.... I suspect that the fact that it doesn't work when you first create Jogged section line is a bug....

 

Here is my file Section Line Jog.vwx

Edited March 21, 2018 by markdd

[Jim Smith]

Thanks, but this is in regards to the Line that shows up in a Viewport. The Section Viewport does illustrate the "crease" but the LINE that should note that "Crease" does not show up.