How to create a section drawing in "dxf" format?

[Ben]

Hi. 

I am planning to use CadQuery.

I want to make a cross-sectional view of a 3D model cut from various directions.

The format should be dxf.

Are there any APIs made to make this possible?

Could you ever see an example of this use?

[Jeremy Wright]

There is an example of exporting a section to DXF in the contrib repo: https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery-contrib/blob/master/examples/tray.py#L104

I think section only works in the direction of the normal, so dynamically varying the section direction might be a challenge.

https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/classreference.html?highlight=section#cadquery.Workplane.section

[Adam Urbanczyk]

The section is based on the current workplane (and an additional offset). You can create new wokrplanes by e.g. applying rotation (take a look at this example: https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html#rotated-workplanes ).