New and a question

[wimve]

Hello,

I am new to this forum but already active for about 1,5 year on the dutch sketchup forum.
Since I live in Holland the dutch language is easier.
For about two years I am drawing the buildings for the Hanstholm museum in Denmark (http://www.petromax.nl/Hanstholm.html). Most of the things work well with sketchup but I have one question or request:
Sketchup can only make straight (that is following one straight line) section planes. But some drawings or buildings require a section through the most interesting features of a building.

Or is there a rubby script that can do this ?
Request if not: can someone make such a rubby ?

Like following this line E-F:

[TIG]

You can have multiple section cuts active IF they are each inside their own group of geometry...CrankSectionCutByGrouping.skp

[wimve]

Thanks TIG.
But I my example I would have to make four section planes each with its own section group. I was hoping that there is/was an other way to get the same result becuase I already have a lot of section planes.

[TIG]

@wimve said:

Thanks TIG.
But in my example I would have to make four section planes each with its own section group. I was hoping that there is/was an other way to get the same result because I already have a lot of section planes.

I agree it is somewhat convoluted BUT you can nest as many active section cuts inside sub-groups as you like, so a very cranked cut is possible - it's just a 'pain in the proverbial' to set up !
It could be scripted BUT it hasn't been and since it's a pain to do manually it'd be worse programmatically, so don't hold your breath waiting for a solution...

[broomstick]

Or maybe you could make a copy of the model and start to slice it up with sections. Delete the part you don't need and have the model of the section cut ready to use. If you don't want to delete it, group the part you don't need and hide it....

This is going to be very useful for a job I have!!!