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Serial Section Manager

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

Closed Adding new sections
  1. Click Trace >Sections>Serial Section Manager.
  2. In the Serial Section Manager window, click New section ; if no section has been defined, the program displays the Serial Section Setup window.
    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 10µm-thick, and the top of the section is at a depth of 0, the bottom of the section is at a depth of -10µm.

Once the first section (or series of sections) has been defined, New section automatically 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, use Insert Section.

ClosedSerial Section Manager settings
ClosedSection 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.

ClosedSection Name column

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

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New section: Adds a new section.

Insert section: Inserts a section between existing sections.

Edit section: Lets you edit 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.