Planar sections

1. Enter the direction of the axis.

2. Range: choose where the sections are calculated:

   • Regular: with a regular step, for example, one section each 10m.

     • All over: all over the object

     • Custom: only between two points

     • Pass through: force the section to pass through a given point.

   • List of distances: pick points or enter values to choose where to calculate sections.

3. Check Chain opened sections option to chain the section. The "chaining" is an operation which connects all the opened polylines on one cut plane.

   • Check Offset option to make an Offset of the link connecting different polyline pieces. Chaining sections is very interesting for laser cutting tool paths were you need continuous polylines. Offset can be useful to keep track of the holes or undefined zones in the model.

For point clouds, there are further options:

1. Enter the Slice thickness in which the points of the cloud will be taken into account when computing the sections.

2. Set the Chaining distance in order to set the connection between opened polylines.

3. Activate or not the Noise reduction to keep only the best points of a section.

For meshes with inspection data, you have the option to create section with inspection data.

• Create inspected section: select to create a section with inspection data

• Magnify: Scale the pegs length