Tig, You are awesome! Thank you so much for your help. I will grab the new version and try it as soon as I can.

I have found a way to mod the slicer script to get what I need. While its not dumping out an image format as I couldn't find a way to import a gem into a script (I am new to ruby so please let me know if there is a way) I ended up going to a custom xml format and displaying direct from the control software. I know svg may have been better but I am not familiar with the format yet and this was quicker to produce. Thank you to everyone who spent some time with this thread.

I ran the slicer plugin and while it took a while it did seem to work. However manually zooming and exporting isn't practical if there is 5,000 slices in a single model. Now if we can find an automated way then we got something

Hey Tig Thanks for the super quick reply. I should have mentioned my application in this case. I am building a High resolution 3d printer with the guys at http:\www.phlatforum.com. The reason your first suggestion does not work is memory issues. We are expecting a high number of sections that will need to be displayed (several 100's to a a few 1000's) The section cut tool and I suspect the cut face tool will choke and crash sketchup. The 3d printer in this case uses a bath of light sensitive resin that will harden when exposed to the proper wavelength of light. So I will indeed need to have the sections faced as well.

I did see your sectionCutFace plugin and it works the best I have seen (and I have tried many in the past week) If there isn't a plugin to do this how easily do you think that plugin can be converted? I am not too familiar with ruby but have used several languages and program for a living so it shouldn't be too bad. I will take a deeper look at the code while I await responses.

Does anyone know of a plugin that will take a component/group slice it along an axis and instead of making groups and new faces in sketchup makes some kind of image file like jpeg or png?