Can't Handle Section Planes

[Jim57]

These Section Planes are driving me buggy!

I set up a scene and save it. I set up another, turning on View/ Section Planes and /Section Cuts, and I save that scene.

I go back to the first scene. The section cuts show there as well, so I turn them off and save that scene, this time making sure that the box "[save] active section planes" is checked. I go back to the second scene, a section view. Now the section planes don't show.

This time I uncheck the "save active section planes" box to see if it makes a difference, and check Section View. I go back to the first and the section planes show where they shouldn't.

So the lightbulb goes off and I put the section plane on its own layer and turn it off. It doesn't show, but the cut does.

Just to make sure I go insane, I try all the above a second and third time, in all possiblew combinations. Results the same: they show when they show, and they don't when they don't. Yaaaaag! How do I set up scenes to show sections when I want them and not when I don't?

TIA,

Jim

[Gaieus]

Hi Jim,

Only the active/inactive state of the section planes are saved with scenes. Whether they are hidden, is saved with the style.

First of all, go to your Preferences > General tab and check "warn of style changes when scenes are created". From now on, whenever you make such a change and want to update (or create a new) scene, there will be an annoying (but useful!)popup where you can update your style, create a new one (this is what you need here) or do nothing.

[Jim57]

Gaius—

Wow, that is way cool (for an annoying popup window).

Thanks, Gai