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Placed Board Section Views in the horizontal and vertical planes for a Board Assembly View.
A Draftsman board Board Section View is an automated graphic composite that provides a profile slice, or sectional, drawing taken from a nominated 'cut' point through a placed Board Assembly View. It processes the available 3D data from the current PCB to generate a standalone section or slice drawing that is aligned to the nominated cut point.
Any number of Section Views can be created from an Assembly View, and its drawing representation style, view direction and labeling are all configurable in the Properties panel.
Board Section Views are available when an Assembly View (set to Top
or Bottom
View mode) has been placed in a PCB project Draftsman document. Access the Board Section View placement command from the Draftsman Editor as follows:
When the command is launched the cursor will change to a crosshair, indicating Section View placement mode. The placement steps are:
The position, size and target point of a placed Section View may be graphically modified when it has been selected in the workspace. The view allows for different modes of graphic editing:
Drag a selected Section View or its scaling/cut nodes to modify the view's graphic representation.
Properties page: Section View Properties
The non-graphical method of editing an Section View is available in the Draftsman Properties panel, which provides a comprehensive range of editable properties, options and view style settings for placed Draftsman views.
The Properties panel when a Board Section View is selected.
To open the Properties panel and access the properties of a placed Section View:
If the Properties panel is already active:
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