Serial Section Manager

Context

Use the Serial Section Manager to define the key parameters (i.e., initial section thickness, Z position, etc.) for each section.

Open the Serial Section Manager by clicking its button on the Workspace ribbon (Tracing section).

Adding new sections

Click the New section button in the Serial Section Manager window. If no section has been defined, the Serial Section Setup window is displayed.

  1. Under Section Information, modify the values as needed.
  2. Enter the Starting section number.

  3. Select Added or Subtracted then click OK.

    When you focus down through a section, the depth value increases in the negative direction. For example, if sections are 10 µm thick, and the top of the section is at a depth of 0, the bottom of the section is at a depth of −10 µm.

Once the first section (or series of sections) has been defined, clicking the New section button adds a new section to the end of the section list using the parameters previously specified in Serial Section Setup.

To add a section to the existing list of sections at a specific Z, click the Insert Section button .

Tools and settings reference

Section Z column

  • Displays the depth value associated with each section. This is usually the Z coordinate for the top of the section.

  • Data contained within a section is not restricted to the Z range of that particular section.

  • Data points placed in a section can have any Z value, but generally the data makes more sense if you restrict the Z values to those contained within the section.

Section Name column

  • Displays the name assigned to each section; either the default name, or the name you assign.

Toolbar button functions

New section: Adds a new section.

Insert section: Inserts a section between existing sections.

Edit section: Enables editing the properties of the selected section.

Select by section: Selects all objects in the current section.

Show current section: Displays the currently selected section only.

Gray other sections: Displays objects not in the current section as gray.

  1. Click Show current section to enable this command.
  2. Click Gray other sections.

Display flanking sections: Displays the sections immediately above and below the current section (e.g., if section 9 is active, sections 8, 9, and 10 are displayed).

  1. Click Show current section to enable this command.
  2. Click Display flanking sections.

Delete section: Deletes the currently selected section. The locations of the other sections are not changed with the deletion of a section.

Delete all other sections: Deletes all sections except the currently selected section.

There is no Undo function for Delete.