Horizontal Plan Cross Section

[RADHomes]

Working on a cabinet drawing and I have tried to use the Cross Section Slider without any luck. This seems to be picky on how you can actually use it and how it will show up on the drawing/elevation. How do you do the horizontal section cuts (1 / 1-2.1) and 2 / 1-2.1) and get the cross section callouts on the elevation pages? The attached pictures are examples.

 

 

TIA,
Ryan

[RADHomes]

It would be a cross section view through the plan at let's say 18" above finished floor and another at 60" above finished floor looking down.

[rgardner]

Your images are not very legible for me but I am guessing you are looking for a wall elevation view. Try the help file.

[DBCooper]

Chief doesn't really do horizontal cross sections the way I think you are trying to.   You can create a top down overview and then use the cross section slider to cut the model on a horizontal plane but you won't be able to add details like dimensions and annotations to it.  All you can do is create a picture out of it and it may not actually look like what you want.  

 

You might be better off just using floor plans.  For example, you can create a floor plan and use a layer set to simply turn off everything that is above the 18" cutting plane to get your view.  It would help if you posted a (clear) picture of the view you are trying to create.  It may or may not be possible to create this automatically depending on what details you are trying to show.

 

As for the callouts on the elevations, it's pretty easy to add these in manually.

 

[RADHomes]

Elevation.pdfSection.pdf

 

Hopefully these show up better.

 

@DBCooper The top down overview worked to a certain point it still does not show details like you would think it would and needs to. I guess you could turn it into a CAD Detail, seems like way more work than I intended...