Section Planes and Layout

[Jim57]

I thought I was getting this but now I"m having trouble.

I drew an interior and put in section planes to illustrate some details. I made scenes that show each of the section cuts, plus a key that shows all the section planes so I can label them in Layout.

Trouble is, when I import the scenes into layout, I can only show them one way: all images showing section cuts or not, all images showing sections or not.

I've gone through the whole routine of updating each scene as I like it, with the right layers, sections, and section cuts showing. Yet when I go from scene to scene (and when I update images in Layout) these preferences get thrown together across all images.

What am I missing here?

TIA

Jimbo

[tim]

You might be seeing the effect of the 'show section planes' switch being global. I'm referring to the toolbar button that (on my mac) looks like a yellow easel for some reason. If you turn on visible section planes and change scenes then they will be visible in the new scene, a bit like the 'show hidden geometry' menu option.

There is a switch in the style edit window for section planes as well as section cuts. If you turn on section planes and update your style and switch to a scene with a different style you should notice the section planes disappearing and reappearing when you swap back again.

So I think you might need to
a) create a new style with the section planes turned on
b) set your 'map scene' to use that style
c) make sure your other scenes don't have section planes turned on in their style

So far as I can tell most of the default styles actually have the section plane turned on already so most likely you'll have to create on with it turned off and use that for the non-map scenes. Depends on what styles you have loaded I guess.