Floor Plan Section Cut

Selecting the section cut floor plan generate option from the utilities menu brings up the section floor plan views generate view dialog box.

Floor plan section cut.

It displays a list of section views and floor plan views. The plan is typically cut at a height of about 4 feet but the architect drawing the plan may cut it at a different height. Plan drawings are in fact a type of section but they cut through the building on a horizontal rather than vertical plane. If you have not setup any views before choosing this option the dialog box will be empty.

This means that you have an imaginary plane cutting through the building at an elevation of 4 feet above the floor. The reason for doing it this way instead of using sketchup s built in section cut tool is that this way eliminates the empty spaces where a mass has been cut revealing the geometry below. It is also called a plan which is a measured plane typically projected at the floor height of 4 ft 1 2 m as opposed to an elevation which is a measured plane projected from the side of a building along its height or a section or cross section where a building is cut along an axis to reveal the interior structure. A floor plan is the most fundamental architectural diagram a view from above showing the arrangement of spaces in building in the same way as a map but showing the arrangement at a particular level of a building technically it is a horizontal section cut through a building conventionally at four feet one metre and twenty centimetres above floor level showing walls windows.