Section Planes and Scenes

JQL

If you typed all that out for me I'm very grateful.

Well it was typed because of you, but this is a forum, so it was typed in behalf of all that have the same doubts...

And every architect will eventually have them.

It will be easy to point them here as the title is says it all.

Arnold55tree

I've been through your procedure, JQL and it works nicely thankyou. I've got the scenes in tabs across the top of the graphics window and they change from one to the next with a nice animation. I've even started to set them up in Layout now.
What if I went through and numbered the steps and attach a picture to illustrate each step? I guess that would be a good thing to post on a blog somewhere so that it can be linked to easily.

JQL

@arnold55tree said:

I've been through your procedure, JQL and it works nicely thankyou. I've got the scenes in tabs across the top of the graphics window and they change from one to the next with a nice animation. I've even started to set them up in Layout now.
What if I went through and numbered the steps and attach a picture to illustrate each step? I guess that would be a good thing to post on a blog somewhere so that it can be linked to easily.

If you send me the images I'll put them here.

pilou

You have also the possibility to show each Step inside Sketchup itself by making some scenes!
So just save the SKP file!

Arnold55tree

Here's a PDF with your text and some pics. I've added step numbers and one or two small edits. I'm happy to upload the word doc and the Sketchup file if you'd like to improve it.
It would be good to acknowledge the original modeller of the building.

Planes and Scenes Procedure.pdf

Krisidious

I think Arnold is going to be a fine addition to the club...

JQL

He definitely is! Arnold can you send me only the images and I'll update my first post? I'll also introduce your edits and some more needed in the rest of the post.

Arnold55tree

Hi JQL, here's the Word doc, I tried saving out the pictures but all the cropping, arrows, numbers, elipses and captions disappear. There were no intermediate operations, I pasted directly in here and arranged things. This gives you all editing options but let me know if you still want the plain pictures.

oops... The .docx extension is not allowed
Lets try a zip of pngs

Tutorial.rar

srx

For me It is too complicated to be transparent. The shorter way - Rich Section plugin makes section, layer and scene very nice.

JQL

@srx said:

For me It is too complicated to be transparent. The shorter way - Rich Section plugin makes section, layer and scene very nice.

Rich Section is a nice plugin. But learning this workflow allows for no plugins and for understanding how to manipulate scenes after you've created them. Rich section automates some of these steps but it fails sometimes.

srx

I prefer thinking about design instead of how to manipulate scenes. That's what Su is all about IMO. In this case there is a mess in managing styles and sections in SU, but the feature is good for plugins, for further development...By the way, what is the advantage of not using plugin?

JQL

@srx said:

By the way, what is the advantage of not using plugin?
None if you know what you're doing... It's full of advantages actually.