Section Cuts in Layout

[RCampo]

Has anyone figured out how to handle section cuts in Layout?

I have scenes saved in the model, some showing the cut, some not. In the scenes with the cut hidden, Layout still shows the plane of the section cut, even though its hidden in the model for that scene. I've been deleting the cut, saving and reloading as a workaround, but Im hoping someone here can advise a better strategy.

Thanks...

[jhauswirth]

Let me know if this doesn't help-
http://groups.google.com/group/LayOut-Group/browse_thread/thread/1b4420a618d5016a/9e922f9407438831?hl=en#9e922f9407438831
If it doesn't, then you may want to send me your doc to see
if I can figure out what's going on.

[Daniel]

In Layout, select the scene where the cuts are supposed to be hidden (as they are in the SU model). Then, in the SketchUp Model window, select the Styles Tab and make sure Modified Active Style is selected.

[jhauswirth]

I've been looking at this problem a lot lately. I have found
that having a "Modified Active Style" in the list of Styles is
a very bad situation when using LO. The reason is, "Modified Active Style"
will constantly change or not exist at all, so LO will not render
the same style every time you save your SU model.
The best practice is to make sure you don't have a "Modified Active Style"
by looking at the Styles Inspector in SU (it will show some
circular arrows) before you save and update in LO.
I've been suggesting to people to just create a new dummy Scene that
uses a Style that doesn't exist in any other Scene. If you switch
to that Scene every time before you save, the "Modified Active Style"
will get wiped out automatically. (Notice how easy it is to make the
"Modified Active Style" disappear?)

[Charlie__V]

J,
Glad to see you are working on this.

I have experimented with this some since simply making sure your styles are current in SU prior to save has not always been the solution for the section plane absence or correct style in LO.

What I had found..or thought to work for me, was after making sure all scene/styles were current in SU, I would also purge unused...then save.
Now in LO I would update reference and still have inconsistent results with respect to styles & or section planes. [possibly modified styles as you suggest].

What I had started to do was go to the in model styles and select another in model style....let that change....then go back to the desired style for that LO reference.

This seemed to correct either the incorrect style or missing section plane or both.

Not sure how accurate my description is, as this was a couple weeks ago I had discovered/used this as a solution.

I will try as you suggest on future Lo projects.
Best,
C

[jhauswirth]

One other thing to watch out for. If the selected
Scene has (Modified) in front of it, the resulting
image will not match SU because some render setting
in LO changed causing it to be different than the
Scene in SU.