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Section Manager

Choose View tab → Section group → Section Manager to open the Section Manager dialog. This enables you to modify the position, size, and orientation of the selected section
plane or volume in the Graphic Viewer.

Note Though you can create multiple section planes, you can only manage one section at a time in the Graphic Viewer.

Using Section Manager:

Opening the Section Manager dialog displays a Placement Manipulator attached to the managed section. Use this to move and rotate the section freely. The dialog also allows you to
hide the manipulator and translate or rotate the section along an axis in incremental steps:
1. Select a translation or rotation axis.

2. Click the right arrow or left arrow step button to move the section by one step - a predetermined distance or angle.

Each click moves the section in the positive or negative direction of the axis or rotational angle, according to which arrow you click. The number in the field is the distance the plane
has moved from its origin. You can translate and rotate section planes in six degrees of freedom.

3. You can modify the step size of the translation or rotation by placing your cursor over the Step Size hyperlink. When its shape changes to , click to open the Step Size dialog.

You can modify the translation step size (in millimeters) or rotation step size (in degrees) as needed.
The Section location area displays the position of the managed section:

4. In the Graphic Manipulation area, you can do any of the following:

Placement - The system displays a Placement Manipulator at the section volume origin. You can translate and rotate the section.

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Scaling - The system displays yellow manipulator lines extending from each face and corner of the section volume. Dragging a face manipulator changes the size of the
selected face, dragging a corner manipulator rescales the entire section volume.

Note Scaling is not relevant for section planes.

Shape - When you place your pointing device over one of the section volume edges, the system emphasizes the edge in blue. You can drag the selected edge to reshape the
section volume. You can only drag the edges of the top and bottom faces (shaded in a darker color for clarity) in a direction perpendicular to the edge itself - this ensures that
the top and bottom faces remain in parallel. You can drag the other edges in all directions but they must remain with the boundaries of the top and bottom faces.

Note Shape is not relevant for section planes.

Note You can check any combination of Placement, Scaling, and Shape simultaneously.

5. Click Reset if you wish to return the managed section plane to its location and orientation when the Section Manager dialog was opened.

The Section Manager dialog contains an icon toolbar with the following commands described in Sections:
Activate Section
Deactivate Section
Flip Section
Section Alignment
Adjust Section Plane Size

Note Not active when a section volume is selected.

Preview Section Contours

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