View range

A plan's view range says which levels it draws. Set it under View range in the plan's Properties.

• Its level: only the elements of the plan's own level, cut at its Cut height. This is how plans drew before view ranges.
• Levels in range: the elements of every level between the Bottom and the Top.
• From above: a roof or site plan, looking straight down with nothing cut.

Levels in range

• Bottom: a level and an offset. Levels from here up to the cut plane are drawn as plans of their own: cut where the cut plane passes through them, in projection where they lie below it. A site level 0.45 m under the floor, with its boundary walls and gatehouse, shows in the floor plan with its walls cut.
• Top: levels starting above it are left out. Next level up by default.
• View depth: levels between it and the bottom are drawn lighter, in the beyond style.
• Overhead dashed: what lies above the cut, up to the top, is drawn in dashed lines: roof edges, an upper slab, a chimney cap.

On the plan's own level, a part that lies wholly above the cut, such as the coping on a low screen wall, is always drawn dashed as overhead.

Each height is a level and an offset from it, so it moves when the level moves.

A view depth can't show what the view hides: if a plan hides its footings, a note under the view depth says so, with a Show footings button.

Plan ranges in sections

Turn on Plan ranges in a section's or elevation's header: each floor plan's cut shows as a solid line and its view depth as a dashed one, in a band as wide as the drawing. They stay quiet until you point at one. Drag the grip at a band's end to change the cut height or view depth, or click a cut line to type its height.

Section box

Under View range › Section box, a plan cuts the 3D view as it sees it: Below the cut keeps what is below the plan's cut, Above (ceilings) keeps what is above it, to look up at the ceilings. A section's Section box › In 3D cuts the 3D view from its line to its depth. Each is a crop box of the 3D view, updated when you ask again.

From above

• The plan looks down from the Top (above everything by default) to the Bottom (under everything by default).
• Nothing is cut. Each surface hides what is under it: upper roofs hide lower roofs, roofs hide the walls and rooms beneath them.
• Roofs show their slope arrows. Grids, section marks, dimensions and notes show as in any plan.
• Its template can add sun shadows and distance fading, see Graphic styles.

With the Light linework pack, plans from above take the Roof plan template.