Section Callout Balloons

Arnold55tree

Now that I have my sections working in scene tabs, and looking great in viewports on pages in Layout, I'd like to show a view indicating the sections and the page each can be found on with a callout balloon. That's obviously what the section icon illustrates in the Sketchup toolbar but there seems to be no equivalent tool in Layout. Surely there's a way?

Krisidious

There is not... I have a symbols scrap book around here somewhere. and there could be a section symbol tool if TIG wanted to convert his interior elevation symbol plugin.

Arnold55tree

That's amazing Kristoff!
So how do you deal with it?
I have seen these symbols in glimpses of others work on Youtube etc. I could imagine making some kind of component in Sketchup for a work-around or drawing them with the tools in Layout. What a hassle to have to fill each one in though. There must be thousands of drafties and architects doing this around the world! Imagine the scrambled versioning. This really needs automation.

Krisidious

I make section cutfaces, Tig's plugin I believe.... I use them in a few ways.

I use them to block the view of the empty cavities of the structure in various views.
I use them for Skalp and other SU hatch plugins.
I use them via copy/paste into Layout to convert them into hatches.
I leave them visible in elevations and floor plans so as to use them as references for section marks.

Here's my architectural symbols scrapbook for layout. It has a large section symbol.

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40%26amp;t=49829

Here is Tig's Interior Elevation Symbol and View plugin. Perhaps we might be able to convince him to create a similar section symbol plugin.

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