Naviate Discover - Adjust Section Box

In this article you can find:

• Adjust Section Box video
• About Adjust Section Box
• The main features of Adjust Section Box
• Workflow - Section Box by Scope Box
• Workflow - Section Box by Level
• Workflow - Section Box by manually entering values for lower and upper limit
• How to use Adjust Section Box

Adjust Section Box 

To see this feature in action check out the video below! 

About this feature:

This tool enables you to fine tune the section box in your 3D view manually either by aligning the section box to a scope box, set the bottom and top to a level or manually enter the values desired. If you start the command from a Plan view you are asked to “pick a window” to define an area to create a section box from. It can also round off existing section boxes and tune the height with to an increment.

Please Note: You can select elements in any view you want but the intended workflow for both functions is to use a 3D view.

Main tool features are:

1. Creating section box around the scope box
2. Using elevation levels to set the bottom and top to a level
3. Creating section box by manually entering bottom and top values of your section box

Workflow - Section Box by Scope Box

Please note that rotated Scope boxes are not supported at this time the function will set the correct section box in height but not rotation.

1. Create scope boxes in your project and name them.
2. Open Adjust Section Box tool.
3. In section “Section Box by Scope Box” click on drop-down menu and find scope box you want to create section box around.
4. Click on Create New 3D View to create a new 3D view named after scope box you have chosen from drop-down menu.

Workflow - Section Box by Level

1. Open Adjust Section Box tool
2. In the section "Section Box by Level" of the dialog you can chose base and top level of your section box from dropdown menu. You can also set an offset on your base and top level.
3. Click on Create New 3D View to create a new 3D view named after level name 

Workflow - Section Box by manually entering values for lower and upper limit

1. Open Adjust Section Box tool
2. Enter the lower and upper limit value of your section box. You can increase or decrease your limit value by clicking on arrows on the right side of the box.
3. Value will increase or decrease with each click according to the step value defined below. "Round All Limits to Step" allows you to round off the manual values to step.
4. Click on Create New 3D View to create a new 3D view named after entered settings 

How to use Adjust Section Box

The Adjust Section Box window has three methods of adjusting your view's section box.

1. Section box by Scope box allows you to select a scope box to align the section box to. Please note that rotated Scope boxes are not supported at this time. The function will set the correct section box in height but not rotation.
2. Section box by Level allows you to select a lower and upper limit to the section box based on levels. The offset value will tune from the selected level, positive or negative.
   The offset value is sized by the increment below, increment 1000 will increase/decrease the offset by 1000mm at each click.
3. Manual Section box allows you to finetune the exact values of the section box, not only height but also X and Y positions of the lower and upper limits to the box.

Notes and tips:

If you select an item in a non 3D view, the function presents a list of 3D views and will then isolate the element(s) in selected view – but you will need to open the view manually.

You can select elements in any view you want but the intended workflow for both functions is to use a 3D view.

Round All Limits to Step allows you to round off the manual values.
If you start Adjust Section Box from the plan view, you can select an area in the project to create a section box. You specify the area by picking the first corner and drag a "window" to the opposite corner. The default 3D view is selected and a section box for the area is created.

Please note that if you start the function with an existing (but disabled) section box, this command will use that section box as a starting point just enable/disable the view's standard section box and then run the command if this is not desired.

Any changes you make here will be automatically updated and visible on model 
If "Automatically Zoom to Fit" option is turned on, model will automatically zoom to fit your screen any time you run "Adjust Section Box" tool

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