[plugin] realSection v0.6 Béta (Updated 9/8/2014)

Dave R

That seems to work now although, curiously, the faces don't align accurately with the section cut. See the attached model and zoom in close to the corners. And it seems the materials must already be defined in the model before starting to create the realSections. Is that right? I added the material called _Blue after creating the realSections. The name shows up in the list for defining materials but after selecting it for one group and updating the realSections the face disappeared. When I set it back to the brownish color, the face was recreated.

Section.skp

GWD

@dave r said:

That seems to work now although, curiously, the faces don't align accurately with the section cut. See the attached model and zoom in close to the corners. And it seems the materials must already be defined in the model before starting to create the realSections. Is that right? I added the material called _Blue after creating the realSections. The name shows up in the list for defining materials but after selecting it for one group and updating the realSections the face disappeared. When I set it back to the brownish color, the face was recreated.

That the section faces don't align is normal, because i place the faces a little before and a little behind the sectionplane. But because you work in other units the gap is to big. I try to solve the unit problem asap.

GWD

@dave r said:

That seems to work now although, curiously, the faces don't align accurately with the section cut. See the attached model and zoom in close to the corners. And it seems the materials must already be defined in the model before starting to create the realSections. Is that right? I added the material called _Blue after creating the realSections. The name shows up in the list for defining materials but after selecting it for one group and updating the realSections the face disappeared. When I set it back to the brownish color, the face was recreated.

Problem solved in v0.5
There will always be a very little displacement because it's impossible to put a face on the sectionplane without display problems.

Dave R

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

I wonder why it isn't possible for your script to put the face on the section plane in exactly the right spot. TIG's SectionCutFace seems to do it exactly right every time.

GWD

@dave r said:

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

I wonder why it isn't possible for your script to put the face on the section plane in exactly the right spot. TIG's SectionCutFace seems to do it exactly right every time.

Dave, now it's in the right spot like TIG's SectionCutFace. But also TIG plugin is moved a little bit.

errror404

I would like to report that the issues that I was having early are now gone (since the new update).

Thanks!

ladcwei

Thinks for GWydouw's hardwork,this plugin works now.
But I think there is a problem remaining :sometimes when I zoom out ,the realsection layer would disppear like this:

I guess the reason of this should be the realsection layer and the section plan at the same plan,then when I zoom out ,the section plan works......

ladcwei

And I find this version only works for groups in Su7,if the section plan goes through the components,there is no result......

schnydix

hi i tried aut your plugin real section
if i open the test file it works fine
but my own solids would never shown a real section i Played around with 4 hours
I make a solid right click on it and i have NO Dropdown (Arrow) menu. What make i wrong?
Win xp su8
can i make my own Hatching and rename it later in a version?

And Thank you for the great idea and the work

GWD

@schnydix said:

hi i tried aut your plugin real section
if i open the test file it works fine
but my own solids would never shown a real section i Played around with 4 hours
I make a solid right click on it and i have NO Dropdown (Arrow) menu. What make i wrong?
Win xp su8
can i make my own Hatching and rename it later in a version?

And Thank you for the great idea and the work

Yes you can make your own materials just see that the material name starts with '_'

Guy

paddyclown

@unclex said:

Can't Choose Materials...
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Hi there, i just tried v.06beta in su7 and su8 and in both can't select material. In 8 i can get it to make a section that has a black fill... infact it is a group in a group sou you can go in and manually change the face material as a workaround. & in 8 if I dont make a perfect group from scratch it won't work at all...
The idea is a wonderful one, so all I can say is bravo for doing this, & I hope that a really stable fully functioning version will see the light of day ! Maybe my problems (as so often) come from Vista & it's in french so Program Files folder is seen as "Programmes" which seems to f up lots of plugin's who look for precise path names in english... Vista also seems to make copies of some (but not all ?) plugins in another deeply hidden folder... some days I hate microsoft but heh...

Anyway, do keep up the good work !
All the best & happy new year

schnydix

Thanks for the fast answer GWydouw GREAT Support
Sometimes is my iq just some points higher as the actual room temperature
its enough to survive but too less for your great work

Thanks again

Can i translate this plugin for you to german?
best-off@gmx.net

tomb85

This is really a nice plugin. I've been looking for a plugin like this for a long time.
Also many thanks for the section-hatch materials.

I don't have any experience with ruby scripting, but maybe an extra useful feature would be if you could assign a lineweight thickness to the group/material that is sectioned? Maybe trough an extra parameter that can be entered in the "define realSection material"-popup window. With this you could get a better readability of construction drawings. In the "SectionCutFace.rb"-plugin this is possible, but only for the whole section plane.
For example: walls could have thickness 5, furniture thickness 3, etc...

greetings from a fellow belgian

GWD

@tomb85 said:

This is really a nice plugin. I've been looking for a plugin like this for a long time.
Also many thanks for the section-hatch materials.

I don't have any experience with ruby scripting, but maybe an extra useful feature would be if you could assign a lineweight thickness to the group/material that is sectioned? Maybe trough an extra parameter that can be entered in the "define realSection material"-popup window. With this you could get a better readability of construction drawings. In the "SectionCutFace.rb"-plugin this is possible, but only for the whole section plane.
For example: walls could have thickness 5, furniture thickness 3, etc...

greetings from a fellow belgian

Good idea. I try to put this in the next version.

tomb85

@ladcwei said:

if the section plan goes through the components,there is no result......

There is also no result with "groups inside a group"...
@GWydouw, how do you fix this at your office when you section on components or groups-inside-a-group?
I've tried mixing the results of sectioncutface.rb and realSection together into 1 group but it gets a bit tricky and sections are no longer updateable. Is there a workaround ?

Thanks

GWD

@tomb85 said:

@ladcwei said:

if the section plan goes through the components,there is no result......

There is also no result with "groups inside a group"...
@GWydouw, how do you fix this at your office when you section on components or groups-inside-a-group?
I've tried mixing the results of sectioncutface.rb and realSection together into 1 group but it gets a bit tricky and sections are no longer updateable. Is there a workaround ?

Thanks

At this moment this isn't possible. But i try to put it in the next version.

Edson

thanks for this most useful plugin!

a question: does anyone know were one can get textures with the hatch patterns normally used in section drawings?

GWD

@edson said:

thanks for this most useful plugin!

a question: does anyone know were one can get textures with the hatch patterns normally used in section drawings?

Look in the demo skp file and you find very nice section materials.

Edson

@unknownuser said:

@edson said:

thanks for this most useful plugin!

a question: does anyone know were one can get textures with the hatch patterns normally used in section drawings?

Look in the demo skp file and you find very nice section materials.

guy,

I have seen it, of course. I meant other textures beside those good ones.

simon le bon

Hi Edson,

@unknownuser said:

I meant other textures beside those good ones.

Not very far you have a nice bench of hatching textures with TIG's 2D Tools. It will be the occasion to test this excellent set if you've not already done..

++simon