Not sure if that helps me (although I think that 'flat' feature might be heading in the right direction of what I need). I took some screen shots to clarify my question.

-I constructed the object in shot #1 and it's currently only one giant solid (no curves or any other type of geometry).

-I then take a rectangle and make a plane in the location where I want to draw my section cut (as seen in shot #2).

-Using boolean difference, I divide the solid object and remove the portion that's behind the section cut. I'm left with what's shown in shot #3.

-I then align the cut part of the object to a known view (in this case the front view, as shown in shot #4). Only having a solid to work with, I've had to trace over the outline of the object. I'm only interested in getting the lines that would show up from this section cut (I'm not interested in hidden lines that are behind objects). You can see that I've started tracing the shape in shot #4.

-Shot #5 shows a finished tracing of a section cut. When you trace stuff from a view, not all of the lines line up on the same 2d plane, so I've been using the align command to get them all on the same plane (important for importing into other programs)... (Your 'flat' trick will make this part faster).


So, is there any way to make this process faster? I was hoping that there would be a way to take a solid and somehow derive all of the lines that were used to create the solid. If I could somehow do that, I could take all of those curves / lines and flatten them into one view and then trim the hidden lines as needed.

I hope this is clearer! Thanks again for your help!!!!

Rado