Part Section

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Part Section

Menu location
Part → Section
Workbenches
Part
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
-
See also
Part CrossSections

Description

The text-top=Section Part Section command creates wire geometry at the border between two intersecting objects. It adds a Section object to the document with its corresponding representation in the Tree view.

  • An intersection of two solids/faces results in one or more section lines.
  • An intersection of two lines or a line and a solid/face results in one or more points.

This operation is fully parametric and thus the components can be modified and the result recomputed.


In this example, a cube is sectioned with a cylinder:

  • Base: base object, the Box
  • Tool: Section tool, the cylinder

Usually this would result in one closed set of section lines, but coplanar faces give some extra lines.

Usage

  1. Select the base object
  2. Select the Section tool
  3. Click on Part Section from the top menu.

Links

To create sections with a section plane see Cross-sections.