Flipped orientation of section planes

JSN

I guess that the orientation of sections is defined by the orientation of face normals but I have no idea why some elements seem to be flipped and therefore the planes are not like I want them to be. Any ideas why this is happening and how ot prevent it?

Example: When I click on the white roof covering the plane is upside down.

Ricardo

Your post reminded me about my own topic I posted a few years ago with a similar problem:
https://society.solibri.com/topic/1725/sectioning-sometimes-makes-a-vertical-sectioning-while-i-click-on-a-horizontal-surface-and-vice-versa/8

Maybe there is some information in that topic that could be helpful to you.

JSN

@Ricardo

Right. This mesh has an opening so the geometry is kind of complex. Still I could not really reproduce the snapping behaviour @simon-gilbert was refering to.

Anyway, this should not happen.

Alex.J

I also have the problem on a regular basis and gave up finding why/when, I just use backspace to invert the section plane…

Matti

We could automatically orient the section according the camera direction. That would solve the problem.

Alex.J

@Matti you mean not changing the way the section is done but just the orientation of which side is shown? Not the plane orientation as a whole, right?
Then this would help indeed imho.