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NVIZ - Cutting Planes

Use the Cutting Planes panel to manage cutting planes which may be positioned to slice through surfaces.

Cutting Planes Panel

Current: Number of currently active cutting plane.

Clicking on name pops up a menu from which a new current plane may be selected.

X, Y, Z: Position of current cutting plane (offset from center). Plane may be moved with position box and height slider immediately above. Height (Z value) is only applicable if tilt is non-zero.

Radio buttons T, B, BL, GR, N control color of visible plane between two or more surfaces.

T: Color is the same as the color of top surface.

B: Color is the same as the color of the bottom surface.

BL: Color is blended from top & bottom surface colors.

GR: Color is grey.

N: Plane is not visible.

Reset: Resets to default values.

All Off: Turns off all cutting planes.

Rotate: Rotate around center North-South axis. (side to side)

Tilt: Rotate around axis in plane parallel to xy plane (front to back). If tilt is nonzero, plane surface is not visible.