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To enable or disable additional section planes
1 Click Sectioning Tools tab ➤ Mode panel ➤ Planes
.
2 Click the Current Plane drop-down on the Planes Settings panel, and click the bulb icons next to all required
planes.
When a bulb is lit, the corresponding section plane is enabled and cuts through the model in the Scene
View.
NOTE If you want to move all planes together, you can link them. Otherwise, you can only move one (the current)
plane at a time.
Customize Section Plane Alignment
By default, section planes are mapped to one of the six primary directions as follows:
Default AlignmentPlane NamePlane No
TopPlane 11
BottomPlane 22
FrontPlane 33
BackPlane 44
LeftPlane 55
RightPlane 66
You can select a different alignment for the current section plane. There are 6 fixed alignments and 3 custom
alignments to choose from:
■ Top
- aligns the current plane to the top of model.
■ Bottom
- aligns the current plane to the bottom of model.
■ Front - aligns the current plane to the front of model.
■ Back - aligns the current plane to the back of model.
■ Left
- aligns the current plane to the left of model.
■ Right
- aligns the current plane to the right of model.
■ Align To View - aligns the current plane to the current viewpoint camera.
■ Align To Surface
- enables you to pick a surface, and place the current plane ‘on’ that surface, with its
normal aligned to the normal of the triangle picked.
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