Floor Plan Section Cut

Use document floor plan cut plane to open the floor plan cut plane settings dialog box.

Floor plan section cut. It is also called a plan which is a measured plane typically projected at the floor height of 4 ft 1 2 m as opposed to an elevation which is a measured plane projected from the side of a building along its height or a section or cross section where a building is cut along an axis to reveal the interior structure. The other options in this dialog box relative floor plan range and. It displays a list of section views and floor plan views. The plan is typically cut at a height of about 4 feet but the architect drawing the plan may cut it at a different height.

Cut plane height to current story enter the height at which elements will be cut for display on the floor plan. Selecting the section cut floor plan generate option from the utilities menu brings up the section floor plan views generate view dialog box. Plan drawings are in fact a type of section but they cut through the building on a horizontal rather than vertical plane. Therefor you see in the cut anything that the plane passes through.

A floor plan is the most fundamental architectural diagram a view from above showing the arrangement of spaces in building in the same way as a map but showing the arrangement at a particular level of a building technically it is a horizontal section cut through a building conventionally at four feet one metre and twenty centimetres above floor level showing walls windows.