Measures and Sections

The following section covers the following topics:

Sectioning Measure Results

Having made and kept your measure, select it then click Sectioning to section measure results. The plane is created parallel to the direction defined by the measure and sections entities selected for the measure only. All section plane manipulations are available.

Note: You may need an appropriate license to access the Sectioning command

Measuring Section Results

When measuring the distance between two section points belonging to a same geometrical entity in a section result (see example below where the geometrical entity is purple), make sure you set picking point as selection mode.
If you keep Any geometry as selection mode the measure result is 0 because the measurement is performed between the two section points which belong to the same geometrical entity (in this case, the measure between is performed on the entity and itself)

 

 

  • When measuring the distance between two section points belonging to two separate geometrical (or mechanical) entities, the result will not be the distance between the two selected points but the distance between all section elements of the two geometrical (or mechanical) entities. The selection is highlighted.