Learn how to effectively alter the appearance of a cut section in a model using the cut profile tool. This tool allows you to manipulate the view of a section or detail without the need for complicated modeling.
Key Insights
- The cut profile tool allows you to edit the appearance of a cut section in a model. You can select a boundary face or between faces to create a new profile for a cut section.
- After you have selected a face and drawn your new cut profile, you may encounter an overlapping line problem. This can be resolved by deleting the overlapping line used just as a guide.
- The direction of the arrow on the cut profile line determines which part of the slab will remain. Editing the sketch and clicking on the arrow to point towards the portion of the slab you wish to retain will give the desired appearance.
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In this video we're going to use a tool called cut profile. The edit cut profile tool can change the way something looks that's being cut through. If you have a rectangular slab and you want to show it as sloping, you don't have to necessarily model the slope slab.
You can simply edit the way it looks in a section or a detail. Let's go to the view typical wall section 2. Go to the view tab in the ribbon and in the graphics panel, select cut profile. You have two options to choose from in the option bar prior to drawing your cut profile lines.
You can either edit it by face or boundary between faces. By face edits the entire boundary around the face, where boundary between faces edits the boundary lines between faces. If we select using the face tool, what we're going to do here is change the way this slab slopes to show that it's draining away from the door.
If we select this profile of the floor slab, note that all sides of this cut profile has been selected, and that's due to the fact that we use the face option. Now what we're going to do is start our line two inches down from the edge of this slab. So once it's two inches down, click once, and then we're going to draw a diagonal line all the way up to the edge of the curtain wall, and then hit escape twice to get out of the command.
Now note we have an overlapping line here at the end, so if we were to try to just end this edit mode, we would get this warning saying highlighted line intersects the boundary of the face being modified. Basically we have an overlapping line problem, so we can either quit or continue. Let's choose continue.
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To solve this problem, we simply delete that line that we basically use just as a guide. Take note of this arrow that's on our cut profile line. Note that it's pointing up.
If we were to finish the sketch now, note that the portion that's remaining is the top. Let's edit the sketch profile by selecting the sketch profile and editing the sketch. If we click on the arrow and have it point down towards the thicker portion of our floor slab, click the check box.
Now you'll notice it keeps the portion that we do want to keep. Now we have the appearance of a sloping slab sloping away from the building and off the balcony edge. This is a great way to change the way something looks in a section or detail without doing a lot of complicated modeling.
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