In Tekla you can click the face of an element to clip a model. You can set multiple clip planes to very quickly clip a large model down to a smaller volume. This is far quicker than stuffing around with the silly handles particularly with large models where the handles can be a long way away from the area of interest. Prosteel kind of already has this but it has not changed since the pre Bentley days.
Pls note that the iTwins team already has something that is very similar to the BIMsight, Navisworks etc etc Clip by face tool.
I think that they call it 'Section by Plane'.
https://communities.bentley.com/products/digital-twin-cloud-services/itwin-services/w/itwin-design-review-wiki/43409/section
BTW: Sketchup was one of the earlier converts to this way of defining sections..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPW6EKMwmjA
Jan Šlegr 8 months ago
Hi PS_XXXXXX,
can you provide a reference or example (because probably only a fraction of people knows Tekla)?
I found this video, I assume it's the tool you are talk about. I agree, it looks user friendly and well designed workflow ;-)
With regards,
Jan
PS_XXXXXX 8 months ago in reply to Jan Šlegr
Jan that is the tool in Tekla I am talking about and the link to the video shows exactly how I would like the tool to work.