Annotating Generated Sections

You can use generic measure tools, keeping measures as annotations, as well as 2D and 3D annotation tools to annotate generated sections in the Section viewer.

Create the desired section plane and corresponding section.

Measure Between

You can measure minimum distances between edge primitives or between sections of elements (solid of a model, body of a CATPart). You can also measure distances between points representing the intersection of the plane with any wireframe elements present and other sectioned items, however, you cannot make measures with respect to grid elements.

Note: The Measure Between result is different depending on whether or not the section view is a filled view. If the section view is filled, the result obtained is the minimum distance between sections of selected elements. If the section view is unfilled, the result obtained is the minimum distance between edge primitives.

For more information, see Measuring distances and angles between geometrical elements, and Measuring minimum distance in the Section viewer.

Measure Item

You can measure properties on generated sections.

For more information, see Measuring properties.

Distance and Band Analysis in DMU Space Analysis

You can measure minimum distance between the sections of selected products (model, CATPart, etc.).

For more information, see Measuring minimum distances and distances along X, Y, Z, and Measuring minimum distance in the Section viewer.

3D Annotation in DMU Space Analysis

For more information on 3D annotation, see the DMU Navigator User's Guide.

Creating Annotated Views in DMU Space Analysis

The Creating Annotated Views command lets you create and annotate a 2D view of your section using the arrows, lines, text, etc. provided in the DMU 2D Marker toolbar. 2D views are identified in the specification tree and can be recovered using Managing Annotated Views .

For more information on 2D annotation, see the DMU Navigator User's Guide.