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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      I thought there was a SketchUp function that intersected a model by a section cut. But I seem to be wrong. And now I'm trying to find a plugin that does that.

      Anyone?

      Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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      • massimoM Offline
        massimo Moderator
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        Zorro has a context menu feature "slice model at section". πŸ˜‰

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        • TIGT Offline
          TIG Moderator
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          Context-menu... my SectionCutFace [to add a 'faced' group at the cut], or Zorro2 [Slice Model at Section]?
          Native: if you right-click a section-cut you also get 'Create Group from Slice' [about seven items down] which makes a grouped, but unfaced, set of lines at the cut-plane...
          To mimic it in code make a group with a large face - bigger than the model.bounds, centered on the section-plane, then group.entities.intersect_with(...) the model.entities.to_a, putting the resultant edges into the group.entities. erase the outer edges of the temp-face and then any faces left in the group to leave the edges ???

          TIG

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          • KrisidiousK Offline
            Krisidious
            last edited by

            SectionCutFace is what I use.

            By: Kristoff Rand
            Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
              last edited by

              Trying Zorro2 now. Taking a loooong time.

              One thing: do any of these tools separate the cut geometry?
              What I really want to do is get two groups with the two halves. So I can either erase or hide of them.

              Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
              List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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              • TIGT Offline
                TIG Moderator
                last edited by

                Zorro2 erases the 'half' you can't see...
                To get the model split into two parts you'd need to do it twice, on two copies, with the section-cut reversed in one of them.
                You could them copy and paste-in-place from these two processed SKPs into a new model so that the whole model is there again - but now 'split'...

                TIG

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
                  last edited by

                  @tig said:

                  Zorro2 erases the 'half' you can't see...

                  For now that is ok. But I'm running into BugSplats. 😞

                  Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                  List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                  • TIGT Offline
                    TIG Moderator
                    last edited by

                    I posted a fix on the Zorro thread in response to your comment there... http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=350060#p350060

                    TIG

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                    • F Offline
                      figaro
                      last edited by

                      where can i download the section cut face plugin?

                      Thanks

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                      • TIGT Offline
                        TIG Moderator
                        last edited by

                        First post in its thread - get that from the Plugins Index [BIG red button above here]

                        TIG

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