To display the cut section of your model, you activate a view cut and choose whether to display the model on the cut, below the cut, and/or above the cut. The cut itself is not visible. In the Visualization module you can display the model both below the cut and above the cut; in all other modules, you can display one view or the other.
In the Visualization module you can activate multiple view cuts; in all other modules, only one view cut can be active at a time. For each view cut in the Visualization module, you can also display the resultant force and moment in the entire model or in the current display group.
For view cuts displaying data from an output database, you can also display the resultant force and moment vectors at regular intervals through the model for the selected view cut. For more information, see “Customizing display and calculation of resultant force and moment on the active view cuts,” Section 80.2.8.
The activation status of each view cut persists only for the duration of your session. If you want to retain this view cut activation status for subsequent sessions, you can save these data to an XML file, to the model database, or to an output database. For more information, see “Managing session objects and session options,” Section 9.9.
To display a cut section:
From the main menu bar, select Tools
View CutManager.
The View Cut Manager appears with a list of all the view cuts that have been created during the current session. A check mark appears in the Show column to the left of the active view cut.
Click the check box in the Show column to the left of the view cut you wish to activate or deactivate.
The active view cut is used to cut through the model in the current viewport.
Tip: You can also activate or deactivate a view cut using one of the following methods:
In any module other than the Visualization module, click the 
tool in the View Cut toolbar.
In the Visualization module, click the 
tool in the toolbox.
Click the check boxes in the Model columns to the right of the view cut to display the model below 
, on 
, and/or above 
the cut (these positions are not mutually exclusive).
The selected portion of the model is displayed in the viewport.
If you are working in the Visualization module, click the check box under the 
icon in the Model columns for the active view cut to display the resultant force and moment along that view cut, acting on the visible component. For example, you will see equal and opposite resultant force and moment vectors when you switch from the “Show below cut” option to the “Show above cut” option.
Note: The View Cut Options enable you to control three aspects of the resultant force and moment display on view cuts. You can compute the resultant force and moment based on the current display group or on the whole model, and you can adjust the summation point and component resolution. You can enable display of the resultant force and moment on a view cut for solid geometry and for shell sections or beam sections. For more information, see “Customizing display and calculation of resultant force and moment on the active view cuts,” Section 80.2.8.
In the Visualization module, toggle on Allow for multiple cuts to enable the display of multiple view cuts.
