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User Guide

Section Cut

Inspect a cross-section through the design and adjust how its ground layers and objects are shown.

Choose Section Cut in Presentation to enter the dedicated cross-section view when available for your account. The app activates the section view and supplies an initial section line if one is needed. Use the section minimap to position the line, and the sidebar controls to adjust the section appearance. The section is a representation of the design data; it is not an independent construction or soil survey.

1

Open Section Cut

Select Section Cut from the Presentation controls. The section camera and minimap are activated automatically. This differs from the optional Add Section Line and View Section controls shown in other technical-style contexts; you do not need to find those buttons before using the dedicated Section Cut view.

2

Position the line

Use the minimap line and its handles to place the cut through the part of the design you want to explain. Inspect the cross-section after moving the line. Existing section lines are stored with the project; a default is created when no line is available.

3

Set soil layers for this section

Enable Show Soil Layers to display and edit the active section line’s layers. Change a layer’s colour, depth or visibility, or add and remove layers in the section’s soil-layer controls. Existing section lines retain their own layer data; changing a project soil profile elsewhere does not automatically replace those layers.

4

Adjust the illustration

Use View Depth to control how much depth is included behind the section. In the dedicated section view, Section Enhancements includes Cut Line Weight, Beyond-Section Weight, Vegetation Behind Section and Layer Separation. When soil layers are shown, Earth Colours switches between Natural and Monochrome appearance. Show Flow Arrows controls the illustration’s water-flow arrows.

5

Finish or capture the view

Choose another Presentation view to leave Section Cut; the app clears the active section camera state. Use the normal screenshot capture options for a section image. Export HQ belongs to the Photo view, so do not switch to it expecting the section view to be preserved as an HQ still.