So... I turned on every layer and found two instances of a sewer manhole, way out in the corner....
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RE: The vanishing section plane
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RE: The vanishing section plane
Righto...
I zoomed out and took a section of a model I couldn't see, resulting in a very big section plane presenting itself on the screen (see attached)..
I'll work out how to deal with that later...
I do have a dropbox link to the file below, as this is fairly easy to produce and the 3D warehouse is not familiar to me..
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ld8ecpslptbi6ap/SKETCHUP_190508.skp?dl=0
Thanks very much for weighing in on this.....!
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RE: The vanishing section plane
Sure, thanks...
Changing the camera to "perspective" does not change the result.
I am using SU8 Pro under WinXP.
How do SKP files get shared..?
(I attempted the "upload attachment" facility, but, not unsurprisingly, the SKP file was too big...)
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The vanishing section plane
Hi all, am hoping this is a simple solution for someone...
I have been cobbling together a model, to better understand how a proposed building will be framed and supported on site. To this end I could see the value of some sectional views, in order to facilitate discussions with the client, who will be an owner builder....
I did a search, read a little, watched a tutorial and set about the task of applying a section to my model.
Now... upon firing up the section tool, I have on the screen a green square, with arrows at the corners. This changes aspect as I present it to a variety of faces in the model. Although, I note, I did not have the orthogonal lock by using the arrow keys that one user suggested should exist..
Subsequent to committing to a section location, the model is cut in two, but the section plane vanishes...
I was led to believe it would continue to be available, such that it could be moved, copied etc.
I checked my view menu, to be sure section planes were checked and also hidden geometry, for good measure. Nothing has revealed the section plane...
Where else should I look...?
(some files attached as a description)
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RE: What R.L. is an object..?
yeah.. the contents of the zip are in there......
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RE: What R.L. is an object..?
Yes, I'm referring to operating systems...
Look, Mungo is just a pawn in the game of life..
I am a solo engineer, trying to keep all the balls in the air, in order to perpetuate my subsistence engineering endeavours.
I have cobbled together software to enable this and don't have the funds to be updating the various programs every six months, as they subsequently fail to be supported in OS upgrades... Indeed, a lot of my software is now quaintly termed, "legacy". But it works, I understand it and I can get a result. Dirt, wind, timber, concrete, steel don't change...I like the OSX platform, I run two virtual machines under this: XP and Win10, as software related to engineering tends not to be written on the OSX platform. My hand was eventually forced into getting a copy of Win10... Here I can tell you that for all of windows "progress", If I can run it at all, it runs a lot quicker under XP...
I like the facility of sketchup, but I'm not an architect, I will use it to work out how to proceed on this job, punch out some detail in CAD, then not see it again for two years, at which point I will have to relearn it.. Pity I already have too many hobbies, because it's a fantastic tool..!
As an aside: In my pre M2 version of SU8, I changed the .rbz file to .zip, dropped it into a plugins folder I created in the SU library folder on the Mac, did a reboot, to find no new additions to the menu.. with SU8 pro, height datum was added and functioning straight off the bat.. Good result.
I didn't know the text tool could have provided a solution to my query....
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RE: What R.L. is an object..?
Actually... to answer my own question:
I did a bit of reading (while I was supposed to be working on something else) and I get that my version of sketchup in all likelihood does not have maintenance release 2 and therefore no fastrack to plugins.
I have now downloaded and installed SU8 Pro for XP (because I also have such an operating system... ticks me off how we are expected to wear this built in obsolescence.. ) and this gives me the ability to load plugins...
ta..
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RE: What R.L. is an object..?
Thanks pbacot, that would definitely be useful..
A short time ago I had a look at the trial edition of the latest version of sketchup and in doing so employed a few plugins, but there doesn't seem to be a way in, to install plugins in version 8...
Is there....?
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What R.L. is an object..?
Total disclosure upfront: I am an occasional user and as such use Sketchup 8...
If anyone would like to weigh in on this - I am currently working on a house, or parts thereof and would like to be able to select a line or face and query the relative level of same, in the model..
Can this be done..?
cheers,
Stuart.
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RE: Toposhaper
Thanks for coming back to me..
I like the idea of grabbing things and copying sideways. If I did this at each step and saved, I wouldn't have so many files in the project folder, as back up in case of crashes.. and it does just crash my end, when applying the quadmesh procedure.
As I mentioned earlier, if I can get isocontours from a points cloud, export these to and mark up in CAD, I am still ahead of the game...
Ta