To Define a Section View

3. Select an existing sectional view from the Select view list if you want to modify or delete an existing view. Alternatively, select Create New View to create a sectional view. The selected view is highlighted in the graphics window in a dashed rectangular box in the edge highlight color.

4. Specify a name for the existing or new view in Name. The name for the new view is validated against the names of the existing views.

Click

to delete a sectional view if you have selected an existing view in the Select view list.

6. Click

under View extents. The Selection dialog box opens. The drawing entities in the current view are highlighted in the secondary color.

7. Select a single entity or multiple entities. The number of selected entities is displayed in the adjacent box. The view is highlighted in the rectangular box.

8. Click

to remove all the entities from the view and create a blank view.

9. Click

under Cutting plane reference to select a line entity from the existing orthographic or auxiliary views to define the cutting plane. The adjacent box displays the ID of the line entity.

10. Click

under View reference point to select a line entity in the current sectional view to define a location for the reference point of the view.

◦ The location of the reference point of the view is displayed as a highlighted red circle on the drawing.

◦ The adjacent box displays the ID of the selected entity.

11. Click

under Parent view positioning reference to select a line entity from the parent view from which you had selected the line entity to define the cutting plane reference. This line entity must be normal to the line entity selected to define the cutting plane.

◦ The intersection of this entity with the line entity selected to define the cutting plane reference is displayed as a highlighted red circle on the drawing.

◦ The adjacent box displays the ID of the selected entity.

12. Click

under Secondary view positioning reference to select a line entity from the existing orthographic or auxiliary view to define the reference for view positioning in that view.

◦ The location of the view positioning reference in the secondary view is displayed as a highlighted red circle.

◦ The adjacent box displays the ID of the selected entity.

◦ When you have defined the view extents, scale, cutting plane reference, the view reference point, and the view positioning references in the parent and secondary views, the references entities are highlighted in green. The location of the reference point for the view that was displayed as a highlighted red circle is replaced by a highlighted green circle.