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Section Face Format

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Formatting of section faces has been simplified a bit.
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There is now a drop down list with choices [Hide, Color, SvgHatch, PatHatch]. SvgHatch is the default. simple.svg is used if no default pattern is specified in preferences.

ShowCutSurface property has been removed in favour of the above drop down.

There are now separate properties for Svg hatch file and PAT hatch file.
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Thanks for your work.
Always I found TechDraw NewSection a bit confusing. It is not very intuitive to infer the direction of each cross section. What are Section, Section 001?
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bitacovir wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2019 3:41 pm Always I found TechDraw NewSection a bit confusing. It is not very intuitive to infer the direction of each cross section. What are Section, Section 001?
It is all based on what direction the viewer's head turns to look at the cut face, starting from looking at the Source view. "Section" is looking up at the cut face. "Section001" is looking down.
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Same for Right/Left. Look at the Source, Right shows cut surface to your right.

If you have a suggestion to make it more intuitive, I'd like to hear it.
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wandererfan wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:11 pm "Section" is looking up at the cut face. "Section001" is looking down.
Vertical cross sections are fine, but the horizontal cross sections some times look weird.
Here an example. Vertical cross section generates the section a-a, and it is fine. But the horizontal cross section generates a section b-b that it does not make sense to me (attached file).
I drew a cross section view manually using projection lines at the bottom (red dashed lines). That should be the correct cross section b-b.
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bitacovir wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2019 5:27 pm Vertical cross sections are fine, but the horizontal cross sections some times look weird.
If I rotate the Source shape by 45 about X before creating any views, it looks right. Need to look at how it handles Source projection direction, not just the Source's orientation.
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wandererfan wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:11 pm
If you have a suggestion to make it more intuitive, I'd like to hear it.
I think the Edit SectionView panel could be redesigned on its UI.
For instance: Section origin X, Section Origin Y, Section origin Z
Vertical sections can be move changing the values on Section origin X (Y,Z does not produce any change)
Horizontal sections can be move changing origin Y, Z but not with X.
Is this right?
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bitacovir wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2019 5:27 pm Vertical cross sections are fine, but the horizontal cross sections some times look weird.
Here an example. Vertical cross section generates the section a-a, and it is fine. But the horizontal cross section generates a section b-b that it does not make sense to me (attached file).
Making progress I think. Do these look right to you?
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bitacovir wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 2:17 am For instance: Section origin X, Section Origin Y, Section origin Z
Vertical sections can be move changing the values on Section origin X (Y,Z does not produce any change)
Horizontal sections can be move changing origin Y, Z but not with X.
Is this right?
Not quite, no. The SectionOrigin is a 3D point. The section plane passes through that point either vertically or horizontally.
One axis of the plane is the Direction of the Base view and the other is the vertical/horizontal axis of the Base View. The left over direction is the SectionNormal.

If you change the SectionOrigin in either of the plane's axis, you won't see much difference because the plane is very big and will cut the shape the same way.

If you change the SectionOrigin along the SectionNormal, you'll notice changes.

If the Base view Direction isn't along a primary axis (XYZ), then you have to adjust more than one component to move the plane.
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wandererfan wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 5:04 pm Making progress I think. Do these look right to you?
Let me see... With my old fashion method... Yep, it looks fine.
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wandererfan wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 5:22 pm Not quite, no. The SectionOrigin is a 3D point. The section plane passes through that point either vertically or horizontally.
One axis of the plane is the Direction of the Base view and the other is the vertical/horizontal axis of the Base View. The left over direction is the SectionNormal.

If you change the SectionOrigin in either of the plane's axis, you won't see much difference because the plane is very big and will cut the shape the same way.

If you change the SectionOrigin along the SectionNormal, you'll notice changes.

If the Base view Direction isn't along a primary axis (XYZ), then you have to adjust more than one component to move the plane.
Ok. I understand now.
Maybe it is possible change the Edit Section panel to something like this:
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This way the setup of Section View can follow a path of clear 3 steps:
1) First, to write a Identifier (text) of the section view
2) Second, to chose section orientation. Once the user clicks on an icon, the section view and the section line appear on the main window.
3) Third, with the Section view at the main window, the user can have a reference for relocation of the section plane if it is needed. Thus, the user can change the numbers and click Apply button to see the changes. He can repeat the last step up to the location is correct.
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