Thank you Gerrit. That's a shame. Everything else about SU seems to work beautifully. I really wish there was a reliable way to create a non-destructive edit on a component. That might be PRO functionality for all I know. I'm not quite ready to make that commitment. Perhaps I'll write a Ruby that fixes this.
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RE: Section cuts in mirrored geometry
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RE: Section cuts in mirrored geometry
Hello Dave. The timbers are scaled because they can be. They are both instances of a single component which is profiled to be symmetrical along the lengthwise axis. I thought this was standard practice. Yes, I'm after a mitre cut. I don't want to do it destructively though in case I decide to swap the timbers for a different component later. Also, the nesting is a result of what I've read on how to have simultaneously active section planes on the same geometry. There are going to be section planes added at the far edges to make them vertical. I had that working in my actual model, but again only on one side of the mirrored geometry. This is easy to duplicate. Just create a component and put a section plane through it, then make a copy and flip it. I just think the section plane behaviour is weird. Has nobody ever noticed this? Why should the cutting direction reverse when you flip it in a way that keeps the arrows going in the same direction? There are some other weird things I've noticed when using section planes this way. The hidden piece seems to cast a shadow for instance. Thanks for your help.
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RE: Section cuts in mirrored geometry
Ignore that first file I posted. I did it wrong. I forgot to copy the containing component. This one is correct. Thanks.
This one actually uses a component, with a group inside containing the two other groups.
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Section cuts in mirrored geometry
Hello board. I'm a first time poster here. I was wondering whether anyone has experienced an issue with section cuts in mirrored geometry. I have attached a screen shot. The foreground shows a group that resides in a component. The background shows the same group in another copy of the component which is flipped along the axis perpendicular to the timbers I'm cutting with the section planes. Each timber is in a group by itself, where the section plane is applied where it would make a mitre joint. The foreground (not selected) is what I want. The background is not. I would have thought they'd be the same. Is there a workaround? Many thanks.