elevation/plan (no "cutting" through anything)?
I don't know if AutoCAD can do the former...I believe that is kind of why
Revit exists. You should be able to do a viewport of the model and only
show a "plan" or "elevation" view of the model, but you might need to "turn
some stuff off" (i.e. put some things that you don't want shown on a layer
and turn that layer off).
Don't know if that will help or not.
Regards,
Scott
Adrian, MI
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Polhemus [mailto:bill@polhemus.cc]
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 2:56 PM
To: seaint@seaint.org
Subject: AUTOCAD: Extracting 2D Section from 3D Frame Model
First of all, you'd think this would be among the simplest of things to do,
but I declare to you that I've spent two hours searching the Autocad help
files AND the web with no luck. Everything I find has to do with 3D SOLIDS
modeling.
I have a relatively simple 3D frame - just four columns connected by girders
and some floor framing at the top of the "box." I just want to be able to
show ONLY the plan, and ONLY one elevation view at a time, in a viewport.
You'd think there'd be a simple "near and far clipping planes" setting that
would allow you to do this, but I don't see it. As it is, you are obliged to
show everything from a certain view.
There's the "elevation" command. If you could give the elevation in a view,
then tell it how far from the reference "elevation" below and above it, that
would work, but again, I don't see it.
Anybody?
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