Details on the Working Section Functions and “3D Section Area”
Information about the buttons for working sections and 3D section areas.
These functions allow you to create temporary working sections and 3D section areas in order to examine spatial situations in the project more closely and/or to design them better. The horizontal and vertical working cut, the working cut in front of a wall, and the 3D section area are available for this purpose.
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General
The horizontal and vertical working sections, as well as the working section in front of a wall, are created in floor plans or in ceiling or area plans. The 3D section area can be created in floor plans, 3D, building, and section views, or ceiling or area plans.
Hereby, temporary section views or 3D views are created, which are overwritten when the same function is used again. To permanently save working sections in the project, change the name of the view. The working sections can be adjusted via the LINEAR Properties or using the Revit Control Elements for Views (scale, level of detail, image style, etc.).
Horizontal working section, 
Vertical working section, 
Working section in front of wall
For horizontal and vertical working cuts, use a selection frame to select the area to be shown in the section.
With the Working Section in Front of Wall function, a section is placed in front of the selected wall after selecting a wall surface. The viewing direction is aligned with the wall, and the section width corresponds to the width of the room. For exterior surfaces, the selected wall is displayed in full width. For non-rectangular room geometries, the section width may have to be changed manually to the desired width. The distance between the section line and the wall axis is always 1 m and can be adjusted if necessary.
With the horizontal working section, a temporary section view with the designation HS is created; with the vertical working section, the designation VS is used. The temporary section in front of a wall is created with the designation WS. The height of the section area corresponds to the height of the current storey.
| Section position | Section view |
|---|---|
| Horizontal Working Section  | Horizontal Working Section  |
| Vertical Working Section  | Vertical Working Section  |
3D Section Area
Use a selection frame to select the elements to be displayed in a 3D section. A temporary 3D view named 3D is created. The height of the 3D section area corresponds to the height of highest selected element.
| Selection | Section view |
|---|---|
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Remove 3D Section Area
Removes the 3D section and makes the entire model visible again.
| Before | After |
|---|---|
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