[Plugin] SectionCutFace

boofredlay

Thanks TIG.

MALAISE

TIG the man who writes plugin faster than his shadow....

MALAISE

utiler

Legend......

sepo

Cheers... I have been using this plugin from the day one....

Sekta

Thanks TIG, I couldn't do without this plugin

SEKTA

dylan

Thanks TIG

simon le bon

Dear TIG,

The white sheet becomes black with the thanks we give you at each new script you offer to the community!!

I had used this one with a total pleasure here: Modeling] A PoorFlatEllipsoidIndian Bowl into this video: SketchUp/PotterSC_S&S_Quarter2(sorry to advertise this way my own products: I have presently nothing better done with SectionCutFace to show)

+++simon

broomstick

I absolutely looooove this plugin

AcesHigh

I am sorry, what exactly does this plugin do? Its like a Zorro?

TIG

@aceshigh said:

I am sorry, what exactly does this plugin do? Its like a Zorro?

No.
To see what most scripts do you can download them and if they don't have a separate readme or pdf then open the .rb file with a plain text editor (NotePad.exe etc) and read the first part which is almost always a description and helpful notes...
Basically SectionCutFace is a tool that lets you fill in the faces of a section cut, coloured etc as desired...

SectionCutFace adds a right-click context-menu item 'Add Section-Cut Face' that becomes available if you have selected one (active) section-plane. It opens a dialog and you can then set options - the cut's face colour, the section-cut's colour+width, the cut's layer, if its un-faced edges are kept and if all its edges are finally hidden etc... On 'OK' it adds a group to the model that is placed on* the section-cut plane (*actually it's 0.2mm inside so you still see it !). This group contains faces on what should be the solid parts of the section: it is coloured and setup as you've specified, put on its own layer as you might want it 'switched-off' in other views... It isn't foolproof - you can invent a section with ambiguous areas of solid/void but if it guesses the faced/unfaced areas wrongly then you can simply edit the group and fix them.

cyan.archnet

really GREAT plugin, THANKS A LOT!

ideas_arte

Thank you very much....!

drewpoeppel

Thank you so much for this! I just had a project where I spent half the day trying to create what your .rb did in 5 secs. Essential for all architects.

utiler

TIG, I have a request for this great little script.
Generally when i as a section cut, I only want it in the current scene; I assume most others would also.

Is it possible to edit the script to view the cut layer active only in the current scene?
[Just like Jim's [Add hidden Layer" does]

TIG

Here's v2.3 28/07/09 CUT-x's layer now only 'on' in current page/scene.
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=172583#p172583

utiler

You're the man, TIG!!!!
Thank you sooo much....

rhankc

Many thanks Tig. Have a great day!

massimo

Sorry TIG, I got this error with the 2.3 version with a simple box model
Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined methodset_visibility' for nil:NilClass>
C:/Programmi/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb:383:in face' C:/Programmi/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb:451 C:/Programmi/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb:451:in call'`
and i don't understand how the plug works with the scene/page transition. Draw a cube, add two scenes, in second scene make a section and add "section cut face". Is the below result the expected one?
Thanks.
Massimo.

scene 1

scene 2

TIG

Here's v2.4

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=172583#p172583

Trapped layer visibility setting error if no pages/scenes set...

TIG

@massimo said:

Sorry TIG, I got this error with the 2.3 version with a simple box model
Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined methodset_visibility' for nil:NilClass>
C:/Programmi/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb:383:in face' C:/Programmi/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb:451 C:/Programmi/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb:451:in call'`
and i don't understand how the plug works with the scene/page transition. Draw a cube, add two scenes, in second scene make a section and add "section cut face". Is the below result the expected one?
Thanks.
Massimo.

Do you have any 'Pages' [Scenes] ?
EDIT: see next message for fixing update...