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    • pbacotP Offline
      pbacot
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      Doors and windows.

      How do you construct a door and window in walls and get Section Cut face to leave the inside of the room empty. If I apply a face-cutting door component to the outer skin and leave the inner skin, the room is clear of the section cut face, but the section of the door looks wrong, with the inner wall skin. I've tried making an inner wall jamb cutting element. This looks correct in the model but Add Section Cut face fills the room.

      I have applied a cutting element to both faces which represents the skins of the door element.-- a cutting component the inside skin of the door and frame, and another for the outside skin, but this is a very complicated procedure, just to get this to work (Obviating the usefulness of the feature)

      Is it a matter of exact detail of the door profile or component construction, or a straight forward procedure to make it work.?

      MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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      • pbacotP Offline
        pbacot
        last edited by

        Doors and windows.

        How do you construct a door and window in walls and get Section Cut face to leave the inside of the room empty. If I apply a face-cutting door component to the outer skin and leave the inner skin, the room is clear of the section cut face, but the section of the door looks wrong, with the inner wall skin. I've tried making an inner wall jamb cutting element. This looks correct in the model but Add Section Cut face fills the room.

        Is it a matter of exact detail of the door profile or component construction, or a straight forward procedure to make it work.?

        MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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          mughal
          last edited by

          Hi!
          i am using sketchup pro 2017 and i want to TIG sectioncutface and cutnfill
          are these plugins are available?
          Thanks

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          • Dave RD Offline
            Dave R
            last edited by

            @mughal said:

            Hi!
            i am using sketchup pro 2017 and i want to TIG sectioncutface and cutnfill
            are these plugins are available?
            Thanks

            Look in the PluginStore available at the top of this page.

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              mughal
              last edited by

              Hi!
              👍 Thanks

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              • D Offline
                djo
                last edited by

                bmike WROTE:

                OK - This appears to be the case - if any change is made to the style of the current scene (like turn section planes on or off) - if you don't refresh the style when SectionCutFace tries to make a new scene it crashes.

                THANKS Bmike, that fixed my annoying problem this morning! I also found that you can make or remake section cut face in the outliner. That avoid re-updating your scenes.

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                  mbieniu1
                  last edited by

                  Hello TIG
                  It seams your plugin doesnt work on Sketchup 2019
                  Can you check that out?
                  Regards
                  Michal

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                  • Dave RD Offline
                    Dave R
                    last edited by

                    It works just fine for me on SketchUp 2019.

                    What exactly doesn't work for you?

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                    • TIGT Offline
                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by

                      As DaveR says, v6.2 [available from the PluginStore] works just fine in ALL presently supported versions of SketchUp.
                      It is also fully signed for compatibility with all Extension Loading Policies.

                      When you say "it doesn't work" what happens ?
                      Your comment is far too cryptic.
                      Have you read and understood its usage-instructions ?

                      This tool has neither main-menu items nor a toolbar - it only appears in the right-click context-menu if you have one Section-Plane selected - and there are then various options depending on whether or not it has a cut, and if so, what its 'type' is etc...

                      If it's not a matter of "PEBCAK" then please give us better details so we can help you further...

                      TIG

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                        espar
                        last edited by

                        My extension manager shows it as installed, but I can't seem to find the tools to actually use this.
                        Does it work with Sketchup2019?

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                        • TIGT Offline
                          TIG Moderator
                          last edited by

                          Yes it works with v2019.
                          Please read its usage notes in its PluginStore entry...
                          It runs from the context-menu item[s] which only appear if one section-pane is selected.
                          https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=SectionCutFace
                          https://sketchucation.com/plugin/744-sectioncutface

                          TIG

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                            Ars7
                            last edited by

                            Do you have it for SU v8 ?

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                            • TIGT Offline
                              TIG Moderator
                              last edited by

                              I've sent a PM.
                              v6.2 might work in v8, I've sent you an older version v2.6 as an RBZ, that should work but has far fewer options etc...
                              I no longer have anything in between...

                              TIG

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                                Ars7
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                                Thank you very much, TIG

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                                  ambro96
                                  last edited by

                                  Hi there!
                                  Im just new to this plug-in so forgive me if its a simple solution but I wanted to ask a question.

                                  The section fill works, however there are visible lines in the model where the plane intersects the model when I was preparing the 3d views.

                                  Also if I move or alter something, then the section fill is visible.

                                  How I can avoid this? Is it possible

                                  Cheers
                                  Mark

                                  PS not sure how to add screenshot images in this post.


                                  Faint lines through ceiling are visible in 3D model


                                  Black rectangles visible once something is moved

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                                  • TIGT Offline
                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    Without the SKP I can't be sure. but to me it looks like you have several nested elements - can you cut those cleanly with a section-plane ?
                                    Is it the section-cut face that's wrong ?
                                    Can't you cut the nested elements out side of their overarching 'container' to avoid this ?

                                    TIG

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                                      ambro96
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi TIG

                                      Not sure what you mean, sorry

                                      Question 01:
                                      It just seems like Section Faces applied to the Section Cut remain stuck in place and also remain visible in my 3D model once I return to my main 3D perspective Scene. They dont hide as per a standard SketchUp Section Planes does

                                      Question 02:
                                      Can they be dynamic, so if i move the section plane, the faces also auto update in the new section plane position?

                                      Cheers
                                      Mark

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                                      • Dave RD Offline
                                        Dave R
                                        last edited by

                                        @ambro96 said:

                                        Question 01:
                                        It just seems like Section Faces applied to the Section Cut remain stuck in place and also remain visible in my 3D model once I return to my main 3D perspective Scene. They dont hide as per a standard SketchUp Section Planes does

                                        They are just geometry like any other faces with edges wrapped up in a group container. And like any other group, if you don't want to see it in certain views, you turn off the tag/layer you have associated with it.

                                        @ambro96 said:

                                        Question 02:
                                        Can they be dynamic, so if i move the section plane, the faces also auto update in the new section plane position?

                                        Yes. If you enable that when you create them. Turn on Auto Update. Then it will update after you move the section plane.
                                        Click on the picture

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                                        • TIGT Offline
                                          TIG Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          A01.
                                          The SectionCutFace is group set just behind the Section-Plane, and it will persist even if the Section-Plane itself is switched off.
                                          However, it has its own layer[tag] and that can be switched off in scenes as desired.
                                          As within SketchUp itself any new layer[tag] created in the model will be 'on' in all scene-tabs, so you need to manually edit their visibility and update the scenes' settings as desired - its set up is remembered thereafter.
                                          This is not directly related to SCF, more a foible of Layers[Tags] and Scenes.
                                          SCF does try and circumvent this by offering Layer[Tag] naming & visibility options etc...

                                          A02.
                                          There are three settings available regarding 'updating'.
                                          The default has no 'Auto-Update' attached to the SCF is 'No' - so if you move the Section-Plane the SCF remains where it was made.
                                          Saying 'Yes 'means that if the model changes or the Section-Plane moves the SCF is automatically updated - this is only recommended in simple models because the frequent refreshing can be annoying.
                                          Also any manually editing to the SCF is lost
                                          The 'On-Demand' option lets you select the SCF and update ['Remake'] it to suit the current model elements and Section-Plane location etc - this gives you more control, but again any manually edits on the SCF are lost.

                                          Please decide how you want to use it - there are many permutations...

                                          • e.g. give your Section-Plane a layer[tag], give the SCF the same layer[tag] and name...

                                          TIG

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                                            ambro96
                                            last edited by

                                            Thank you TIG and DAVE R for your assistance. This helps heaps
                                            Kindest Regards
                                            M

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