Drawing Trees in Section

elchato82

Hi,

I'm currently making some horizontal sections showing internal floorplans etc and need to add some landscaping however, when I add trees, they are in section too and only the trunk is visible. Can anyone help?

Thanks!

J

Gaieus

I'm not sure what you are saying, TIG, in connection with the above. If there's a horizontal section plane, it will cut the 2D/face me object, as well. All that differs is that there'd be a single line instead of a trunk. OR I'm obviously missing something here.

What I'd do however is to make the building a single, big group. Now enter the group's editing context (i.e. double click or something) and place your section planes INSIDE the group. These planes will only cut what's inside leaving everything (e.g. trees and such) outside the group "intact".

Some basics about section plane/cuts and different group/component entities:

section cuts always work within a certain editing context/level: a whole model OR inside a certain group/component (actually, groups and especially components work as "embedded mini models" inside the model)
there can be only one active cut at a time PER ENTITY - i.e. if you have several groups, they all can have their own active cuts but since there is only one model altogether, on the model level you can only have one active cut at a time

TIG

Use a 2D tree, that's set just inside the section-cut so it's seen, and put it onto its own layer so it only 'on' in that view/scene... You rarely cut a tree section...

pbacot

I think TIG means a 2d tree image in plan view. One approach would be to have a layer with all the exterior landscape in a 2d plan laid on the "ground" plane for use in the floor plan view.If you have modeled hardscape then the 2d tree foliage image would have to be set to "hover" above that.

Often tree trunks is all that is wanted on a plan view. Sometimes just the dripline is added.

Gaieus

OK, I see. I thought I was missing something (obviously there are 2D "top view" trees, too) since TIG generally doesn't say... Ehm... Whatever...