

We’re looking at the exterior of a house, and then we take our laser and we cut a slice off the house. We set the roof off to the side, we look down from the top, and we see our walls and our floor without the roof getting in our way. Sections are very similar to a floor plan, but instead of looking from the top down, we’re looking across at the vertical section of a house. “On a floor plan, we take a laser and we cut the house in half horizontally. In his Introduction to Reading Blueprints class, he explains:

Professional builder Jordan Smith likens sectional views to taking a laser and slicing it through a part of the construction, so that you can see how elements of a building fit together vertically.
