[Plugin] SectionCutFace
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Works really cool, thanks, TIG!
(And now... If only the section cut face would also move when I make a section animation/transition between two scenes! But sigh... I know, I know...)
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@unknownuser said:
If only the section cut face would also move when I make a section animation/transition between two scenes! But sigh... I know, I know...
That's exactly the result I was looking for, Gaieus.
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I didn't even expect it to be possible at all!
Fingers crossed however (and now all the exporter scripters for external renderers should start thinking about how to export these animated section cuts! ) -
@gaieus said:
Works really cool, thanks, TIG!
(And now... If only the section cut face would also move when I make a section animation/transition between two scenes! But sigh... I know, I know...)
I have a half-baked version that keeps bug-splatting ! It adds observers between the section-plane and the faced-group and remakes/moves them together... Don't expect it to be safe for public consumption soon...
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just downloaded. this should help with my longhand way of doing this!
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I've only been using SU for half a year and I love it. But at the same time leaving autodesk for sketchup, I left pc for mac and I allso love that. Just one tiny little problem "sectioncutface"!!! Everyone gets saved by Tig, but what about me and my resentance to ever using pc again. Is there anything simular to OS x?! Help
http://forums.sketchucation.com/posting.php?mode=reply&f=323&t=20564# -
I posted a message one hour ago, but I have learned that the sectioncutface.rb does work with mac. Needed to make the folder Plugin in my libary. Thanks for the solution to a big problem.
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Most scripts work on a MAC as well as a PC.
It's relatively easy to spot the platform and make minor internal adjustments to suit... -
hum.. I have just installed this plugin.
It does the cut but how do I render my section with V-ray after?Vray still seem to catch whats 'un-cut' and rendered my entire model.
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@lazychild said:
hum.. I have just installed this plugin.
It does the cut but how do I render my section with V-ray after?Vray still seem to catch whats 'un-cut' and rendered my entire model.
Thanks in advance.This tool only adds a filled in section-cut group - to do it so it's cut for Vray etc you need to copy the skp and then physically cut the model in two [using Zorro] and throw away the unwanted half - there's a detailed thread about this already - http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=184604#p184604
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@tig said:
@lazychild said:
hum.. I have just installed this plugin.
It does the cut but how do I render my section with V-ray after?Vray still seem to catch whats 'un-cut' and rendered my entire model.
Thanks in advance.This tool only adds a filled in section-cut group - to do it so it's cut for Vray etc you need to copy the skp and then physically cut the model in two [using Zorro] and throw away the unwanted half - there's a detailed thread about this already - http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=184604#p184604
Thank you very much!
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Thanks only. Pity the poor saps like me making building sections by hand, albeit an SUF hand...
(Duh... must try the native 'creating grouped section slices' sometime.)The fortunate ones stumble on, perhaps to eventually find a real hand up.
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thanks bro
this is really good -
this plugin was much much awaited TIG
gracias amigo -
how do i have the permision to see the link?
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Hi paul,
When logged in (just like when you wrote this post), you should be able to access the download link in the first post. Is there any problem with your login?
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I know, that actually section plane don't slice the model physically ... and it is not necessary.
It would be interesting to add "island detection mode" to existing section plane tool so we could see virtually filled faces during section plane movements.
Complementar improvement would be the ability to pick onto section plane and ON/OFF virtual fill of picked enclosed area.
Correct look of the sectioned portion of the model could be adjusted this way and after obtaining satisfactory result we could run SectionCutFace command to get correctly filled real section slice.
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Filled section-planes built in to SUp would be great but like with SectionCutFace it is impossible to get the island detection perfect if you model intersecting volumes... sometimes it will guess wrong and make solid void and vice versa!
I looked at adding an observer to a sectionplane and then updating the SectionCutFace as you change the sectionplane but it was very slow AND buggy! -
@tig said:
Filled section-planes built in to SUp would be great but like with SectionCutFace it is impossible to get the island detection perfect if you model intersecting volumes... sometimes it will guess wrong and make solid void and vice versa!
I looked at adding an observer to a sectionplane and then updating the SectionCutFace as you change the sectionplane but it was very slow AND buggy!You were creating and deleting real filled geometry on fly?
I was thinking about virtual coloured editable mask on the section plane.I am not a programmer and my ruby knowledge is approaching zero, so I don't know, whether it's "doable"
My idea is:
*a) Observer gets data about section plane(SP) position and sectioned geometryb) Island detection algorithm (IDA) analyze this data onfly and compute filled and void areas
c) IDA solution is displayed via some kind of graphical preselection mode - it is projected onto SP like filled contours
e) This preselection filled mode could be interactive - you could pick with cursor on areas filled "wrong" and invert IDA solution at these areas (filled/void). It would keep this inverted solutions in memory when moving SP until change of section cut topology
f) Actual modified/unmodified IDA solution stored in memory would be used for real section cut generation if needed.*
Dynamic interpretation of the model - not dynamic remodelling
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Well, we will see, what Googles are baking in their secret labs for SU 8
Anyway, your plugin works like a charm TIG. Thanks a lot.
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