What is it that determines the size of the section plane? In the drawing I am currently working on, the section planes started off being slightly larger than my model. But now they are way larger, making manipulation quite tricky. Could it have to do with geolocation? This is an example: [Scre…

The answer to my question seems to be yes, it is to do with geolocation. I got rid of the map and terrains and that shrank the section planes right back down again.

It’s determined by the extent of the model in the context of the section plane.

It seems section planes are sized to fit around all geometry, hidden or not, in the planes context. So deleting the hidden terrain would make them smaller because the size of the geometry shrinks. You could also put the plane inside a group or component with the house, which would size it for the ho…

Maybe my mistake when I downloaded the geolocation map was to choose too large an area. If I had zoomed in further just to get my plot and a bit beyond it, I wouldn’t have encountered the problem.

[image] endlessfix: You could also put the plane inside a group or component with the house, which would size it for the house only. Ah yes. I have never done that before but it makes sense.

By trimming do you mean limiting the number of entities that fall within the scope of the section plane either by delting or grouping? I can find no way to actually trim the plane itself. Thanks

[image] brsandhorst: By trimming do you mean limiting the number of entities that fall within the scope of the section plane either by delting or grouping? Yes. For example I have made a component containing only the components shown cut by the section plane here. Then I opened that top level…

Continuing the discussion from Section Plane size : Hi Dave! Happy New Year to you! I realise this is an old conversation, but I have basically the same question, and I’m not quite understanding your solution here. I’m drawing permit sets based off of a single model, as per your invaluable advice la…

Hi Adrian, hopefully this illustration will help to clarify. It’s from the model I happened to be working on but the idea is the same. For the section through the head, housing and bearing I first collected them together. In this case it’s a group but it could just as easily be a component. That is …

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Yes. For example I have made a component containing only the components shown cut by the section plane here. Then I opened that top level component and added the section cut. No deleting required.

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