Sections and elevations

Every page the atelier carries under Sections and elevations.

• Select in sections and elevationsVSelect picks what a section or an elevation shows by the same rules as the plan: a click picks one thing, Shift adds or removes, Alt with a click reaches what lies behind, and a box dragged with the left button picks many. The middle button pans the drawing, so the left button is free for the box.
• Move in sections and elevationsMMove, in a section or an elevation, carries what you selected, or the element you click, from a base point to a second point of the view, across the drawing and up. Every element takes the part of that travel it can: a window slides along its wall and its sill rises, a floor moves its level up or down, a wall slides along the view, and the marks drawn on the view move whole.
• Dimension in sections and elevationsDDimension, in a section or an elevation, measures the distance between two points of the view: you click the two points, then where the dimension line sits. The value is always measured from the drawing, never typed, and the dimension belongs to that view alone.
• Grid in sections and elevationsAGrid, in a section or an elevation, places a structural grid line with one click: the line runs straight across the cut line at the point you click, and the plan draws it at once. It takes a letter when it fixes a position along the x of the plan and a number when it fixes one along y, in the order in which the grid lines were placed.
• Detail drawingLUYZSThe detail tools draw your own marks on one view: lines, rectangles, white masks, annotations with an arrow, and hides that take one of the lines of the drawing off. The marks belong to that view alone and never change the model, so a section can carry a note that the plan never shows.
• Joint grips in sections and elevationsWhen walls, pipes or beams are selected in a section or an elevation, every place where their ends meet shows as a vertical tick from the floor of the level to its top. Dragging a tick moves that joint along the view, and every run meeting there follows, just as it does on the plan.