ABD ss4 difference between section and elevation in Create Building views

Question

A section is a cut through the 3d-model. 
 An elevation is different. It shows the face of something, or perhaps more correct, the projection of an object/s to a plane. 
 So I looked forward to use PLACE ELEVATION CALLOUT > INTERIOR ELEVATION. Cool tool. 
 But my testing suggests it produces SECTIONS, not elevations. 
 It does exclude a wc chair - but not other geometry at the location of the callout that don't reach to the wall at the direction of the callout. 
 I can still place a separate elevation-callout very close to the wall. But that nukes the beauty of placing all four elevation of a room in one go. 
 
 Just me ?

T_Wollet · Answer

Thomas, 
 It is a Saved View with a Clip Volume applied. With that said, if the clip plane were to cross a Wall, then yes it would section through that wall. So in the truest sense, yes it is a section. However, in reality an interior elevation (as a CAD drawing) is a section of a building that is clipped at the bounding walls. The intent of the interior elevation tool is to give you the same capability and allow you to determine the extents of the elevation by shrinking the clip boundary or clipping the reference. There are companies that i know that include the wall thickness in their interior elevations and may include objects above the ceiling height (at the cut plane) if the ceiling is a different height at the wall (light coves or floating ceilings). Therefore the tool really needs to have section capabilities, but allow the user to crop the extents of the viewing plane to remove the sectioned elements from view if needed. 
 In terms of Project Explorer's categorization of the Interior Elevation it is NOT a Section and Interior Elevations would be harvested separately from Sections. 
 I hope this helps explain a little better. 
 -Travis