Chapter 8

Section Views
 Contents

Introduction
Basic components
Kind of sections
 Necessity of a section view
Given

Orthographic
projection Orthographic
Section projection
principle
technique principle

Yes

Internal features
make a view
difficult to read
or dimension?

No

Finish
Basic components
 Cutting plane line
In an orthographic view, a cutting plane is presented as a
“cutting plane line, CPL” and is drawn in either of an
adjacent view of the section view.
Direction 1 Direction 2 Direction 3
Given

CPL

Section
view

Section Section
CPL view view
 Cutting plane line : Line styles
The cutting plane line is presented by a chain line. (This course)
Begin and end the line with a short visible line.

Draw an arrow at about the mid-length of a short visible line, the

arrow head is pointed toward to this line in a viewing direction.
When the line changes its direction, draw a short visible line at
that corner.

Examples

1
Viewing
direction

Basic Components
 Purposes
Clarify an internal feature.
Facilitate dimensioning.

Example

Regular
view

Section
view
 Kind of sections

1. Full section
2. Offset section

3. Half section

4. Broken-out section

5. Revolved section (aligned section)

6. Removed section (detailed section)

 Full section : Concept & example
A section view is made by passing the straight cutting
plane completely through the part.

Example
Conventional practice : Treatment of a hidden line
Hidden lines are usually omitted within the section lined area.

Example

Hidden lines
present.

Hidden lines
are omitted.
 Offset section : Concept & example
A section view is made by passing the bended cutting
plane completely through the part.

Example

Edge views of
the cutting plane
are omitted

Kinds of sections
 Half section : Concept & example
A section view is made by passing the cutting plane halfway
through an object and remove a quarter of it.

Example

Kinds of sections
 Broken-out section : Concept & example
A section view is made by passing the cutting plane normal
to the viewing direction and removing the portion of an
object in front of it.
Example

Kinds of sections
 Conventional practices
The sectioned and unsectioned
portions are separated by
a break line.
Break line is freehand drawn
as a thin continuous line (4H).
Cutting plane line is not
necessary.
 Revolved section : Concept & example
A section view is made by revolving the cross-section view
90o about a cutting plane line and drawn on the orthographic
view.
Example
a

b
 Revolved section :
Placement of a cross-section view

1. Superimposed to orthographic view.

2. Break from orthographic view.

Break Superimposed
 Removed section : Concept
6. Removed section
Removed section is created with the same concept
as a revolved section. But, the cross-section view
is shown outside the view.
 Removed section
Example : Revolved vs. removed sections. :
Comparison with a revolved section

Revolved section Removed section

Comparison of a different section techniques
EXAMPLE : RIB

Normal multiview drawing

Normal section view
Section view drawing with
convention
EXAMPLE : WEB : flatwise cut

Normal multiview drawing

Normal section view
Section view drawing with
convention
EXAMPLE : WEB : crosswise cut