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    • W Offline
      whx5hw
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      I do drafting/modeling for an interior designer and, when I need to adjust the section planes, it is a little difficult to navigate around the model to place the section planes at the right spots.

      any way to make section planes more transparent or organize them in a way to see only a handful of them at a time?

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      Too Many Section Planes and They are too foggy to navigate around the model. any suggestion?

      I do drafting/modeling for an interior designer and, when I need to adjust the section planes, it is a little difficult to navigate around the model to place the section planes at the right spots. any way to make sec…

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      • pbacotP Offline
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        Wow that IS a lot of planes. I relate planes to layers and to scenes to be able to see one at a time, but that may not work for you. It looks like you are doing architectural work. I can't imagine how you are making use of soooo many sections. Maybe put several in each of a new set of "section" layers. Then you can turn off most of the section layers to be able to see fewer planes at a time.

        It may be that the sections belong to only a portion of the project that is (already) or could be a discrete component. Placing the related sections inside that component will also help isolate viewing fewer planes at a time.

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        • jujuJ Offline
          juju
          last edited by

          Sections Manager
          also consider
          Curic Scene Manager

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          • W Offline
            whx5hw
            last edited by

            Yes, I used them for interior elevations.
            However, I learned that I should have put the camera position facing the elevation that I want w/ parallel projection instead of putting section each time....................
            well, well, but
            that is good idea to put a group of section planes in a layer so that i can turn on/off!
            thank you for your input!

            @pbacot said:

            Wow that IS a lot of planes. I relate planes to layers and to scenes to be able to see one at a time, but that may not work for you. It looks like you are doing architectural work. I can't imagine how you are making use of soooo many sections. Maybe put several in each of a new set of "section" layers. Then you can turn off most of the section layers to be able to see fewer planes at a time.

            It may be that the sections belong to only a portion of the project that is (already) or could be a discrete component. Placing the related sections inside that component will also help isolate viewing fewer planes at a time.

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              whx5hw
              last edited by

              that's great recommendation. Thank you!

              @juju said:

              Sections Manager
              also consider
              Curic Scene Manager

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              • brettsichellodesignB Offline
                brettsichellodesign
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                When I do interior elevations in my models, I set it up in a new sketchup file and reference in my 'base' model. This way i don't have a million scenes or section lines in my main construction model.

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