Section Planes
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I am doing a remodel of a home.
I need to model the existing residence and have some plans.
Those plans I scanned and then imported into my beginning model, I drew the floor plan from the actual scaled scanned plans.
The issue came when I hid, then deleted the scanned plans. I went to cut some section planes and the section plane encompassed the model AND the scanned image,
(the scanned image had some additional edges to it, so it was much larger than the footprint of just the building.
Now all my section planes are huge compared to the model. So in order to control the section planes and to move them I have to zoom way out to get the "handles" to move the section planes.
I did not put the scan on a separate group or layer, I hid it, I can select it and delete it but my section planes do not rescale back down to the model size.
Any thoughts on how to "rescale" the section planes? I tried to "group" only the model elements, and make section planes of that "group" only. But that has proven difficult to isolate. Any ideas?
thanks aloha
red -
ctrl-A to select everything, deselect the image then group it.
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Hi Red,
Section planes, by default, will always "span" through the whole model (more exactly the whole entity - like group or component - they are in). What you could do is to make a group of your current model and move the section plane into it. It would then be as big as your group. Also note that you don't need to grab a section plan at its "handles" - in fact, that often gives you quite inaccurate results. Once you select it, you can snap your move tool to anywhere in the model and move > snap again to another piece of geometry.
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As always,
YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST
thanks
again
aloha
red
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