Just for inspiration, here is the result of my custom section tool:
It asks you to draw a line in top view, select the objects to section and then:
- adds a clippingplane, sets cplane to clippingplane, sets up a floating view, sets the display mode, captures the view, inserts the image, sections the objects with a curve, extracts the clipping geometry from the clipping plane, turn those surfaces into hatches and reorients all the data to top view and closes the floating viewport.
All done in a few seconds.
After adding some details, texts and colors it quickly looks like this (not from same project though)
We needed a quick and reliable tool to make sections that also captured the background data in a quick manner that also didn’t occlude the section too much, so a custom display mode was used for that.