What are section cuts?
Section cuts allow you to get resultant forces acting at section cuts which can be drawn at any location through your structure. You can define section cuts before or after you run an analysis. Typically, you should not define section cuts, and more importantly the groups used in the section cut definition, until you have completed all manual meshing of your model (if any). If you define these groups before manual meshing then some of the point objects that should be in the group may not yet be created. It is safest to wait until after you have run the analysis to define the section cuts. Use this feature to dissect the load paths in your structure.