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Creating cross-sections

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Creating cross-sections

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- So during the creation of surfaces, there will come a point where you have to start cutting slices through that data, or cutting sections to analyze how the data is flowing together, and how your surface continuity is looking. So in this case I've got a very simple concept surface, we can shade this up, and I'm going to change the color to a lighter gray, like this, and I'm going to show you how to cut sections through this and analyze that data. So Sections are under Windows, Editors, Cross Section Editor. So we have predefined XYZ sections, each set at 100 millimeters, and if I select a piece of data, and I select 100, you'll notice that we have these green lines appearing through the piece of data that I've selected. So if I go to Wireframe, you can see there's the data right there. If I switch on Global, what Global will do, will cut through everything that's in my model. So it's a Global command, and it will cut through everything. So if you have a very complex model, just be…

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