[Plugin] SectionCutFace

[broomstick]

I absolutely looooove this plugin

[AcesHigh]

I am sorry, what exactly does this plugin do? Its like a Zorro?

[TIG]

@aceshigh said:

I am sorry, what exactly does this plugin do? Its like a Zorro?

No.
To see what most scripts do you can download them and if they don't have a separate readme or pdf then open the .rb file with a plain text editor (NotePad.exe etc) and read the first part which is almost always a description and helpful notes...
Basically SectionCutFace is a tool that lets you fill in the faces of a section cut, coloured etc as desired...

SectionCutFace adds a right-click context-menu item 'Add Section-Cut Face' that becomes available if you have selected one (active) section-plane. It opens a dialog and you can then set options - the cut's face colour, the section-cut's colour+width, the cut's layer, if its un-faced edges are kept and if all its edges are finally hidden etc... On 'OK' it adds a group to the model that is placed on* the section-cut plane (*actually it's 0.2mm inside so you still see it !). This group contains faces on what should be the solid parts of the section: it is coloured and setup as you've specified, put on its own layer as you might want it 'switched-off' in other views... It isn't foolproof - you can invent a section with ambiguous areas of solid/void but if it guesses the faced/unfaced areas wrongly then you can simply edit the group and fix them.

[cyan.archnet]

really GREAT plugin, THANKS A LOT!

[ideas_arte]

Thank you very much....!

[drewpoeppel]

Thank you so much for this! I just had a project where I spent half the day trying to create what your .rb did in 5 secs. Essential for all architects.

[utiler]

TIG, I have a request for this great little script.
Generally when i as a section cut, I only want it in the current scene; I assume most others would also.

Is it possible to edit the script to view the cut layer active only in the current scene?
[Just like Jim's [Add hidden Layer" does]

[TIG]

Here's v2.3 28/07/09 CUT-x's layer now only 'on' in current page/scene.
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=172583#p172583

[utiler]

You're the man, TIG!!!!
Thank you sooo much....

[rhankc]

Many thanks Tig. Have a great day!

[massimo]

Sorry TIG, I got this error with the 2.3 version with a simple box model
Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined methodset_visibility' for nil:NilClass>
C:/Programmi/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb:383:in face' C:/Programmi/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb:451 C:/Programmi/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb:451:in call'`
and i don't understand how the plug works with the scene/page transition. Draw a cube, add two scenes, in second scene make a section and add "section cut face". Is the below result the expected one?
Thanks.
Massimo.

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[TIG]

Here's v2.4

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Trapped layer visibility setting error if no pages/scenes set...

[TIG]

@massimo said:

Sorry TIG, I got this error with the 2.3 version with a simple box model
Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined methodset_visibility' for nil:NilClass>
C:/Programmi/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb:383:in face' C:/Programmi/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb:451 C:/Programmi/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb:451:in call'`
and i don't understand how the plug works with the scene/page transition. Draw a cube, add two scenes, in second scene make a section and add "section cut face". Is the below result the expected one?
Thanks.
Massimo.

Do you have any 'Pages' [Scenes] ?
EDIT: see next message for fixing update...

[massimo]

No error now, thanks. Real time plugins... But about the result?

[massimo]

This is the situation after the cut with no scenes added, but if i add a scene before the cut no error occurs.
EDIT: TIG answered with the 2.4 version before my reply

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[dimario]

this is just a fab plugin.
thank you a lot. very helpful!!! saves a lot of time...

kind regards...

[Gaieus]

Works really cool, thanks, TIG!

(And now... If only the section cut face would also move when I make a section animation/transition between two scenes! But sigh... I know, I know...)

[massimo]

@unknownuser said:

If only the section cut face would also move when I make a section animation/transition between two scenes! But sigh... I know, I know...

That's exactly the result I was looking for, Gaieus.

[Gaieus]

I didn't even expect it to be possible at all!
Fingers crossed however (and now all the exporter scripters for external renderers should start thinking about how to export these animated section cuts! )

[TIG]

@gaieus said:

Works really cool, thanks, TIG!

(And now... If only the section cut face would also move when I make a section animation/transition between two scenes! But sigh... I know, I know...)

I have a half-baked version that keeps bug-splatting ! It adds observers between the section-plane and the faced-group and remakes/moves them together... Don't expect it to be safe for public consumption soon...