Section Plane Sketchup

This method is useful for the following reasons.

Section plane sketchup. Choose tools section plane to activate the section plane tool. In sketchup section planes cut a model along a plane so that you can peer inside the model without moving or hiding any geometry. To add a section plane follow these steps.

Click on the section plane icon to open the place section plane window. You can also activate section plane by choosing its icon. Before you begin placing sections in sketchup it s important to think about naming them in a way that makes sense for your model.

Move the section plane tool around your model. The sectionplane class represents a section plane in a sketchup model. Integrating section views with scenes to produce an animation is considered as the effective manner to demonstrate your sketchup model.

This layer is useful if you would. For older versions of sketchup you must manually create a section plane with the section plane tool in sketchup and then query the entities array to find the sectionplane object. 3 right click the current scene tab and choose update scene.

Note that prior to sketchup 2014 there was no way to create a sectionplane object using ruby. 4 repeat steps 1 to 3 for each of your other section cut scenes. In a 3d model an active section plane hides everything on one side of the plane as shown in the following figure.

1 activate one of the section cut scenes by clicking its scene tab. Further more you can use scenes to animate the cutting between the. 5 save your sketchup file.