@tig said:

If your model is to be chopped in ~half and the other ~half thrown away then you can reduce the [copied] SKP size significantly by grouping everything to the 'wrong' side of the 'cutting-plane' [make a large grouped rectangle to represent where you are going to cut] and erasing the unwanted stuff.
It will take time to Intersect, Explode, Erase etc BUT be patient...
Why'd you let the SKP get so big anyway? DO you really have to chop it in half like this

Thank you TIG for that explanation, I don't understand all steps but I'll try to unfreeze my brain-freeze
To give you some more info:
I need to keep both parts of the geometry that is sliced in half. I have been using Zorro but I have been slicing it twice to get two halfs.
The reason the model is so big is that I'm using a lot of smooth curved geometry for this project.

The intersect method combined with your great section script would work wonders if it wasn't so very slow to intersect.

I'm not sure how I can group only the parts on one of the section cut/plane sides?

Thanks again!

@mitcorb said:

Can this help? Create a surface- circle or rectangle- group it, position it where you desire the section cut. Select this cutting plane and the geometry around it. Right click Intersect>Selected. Do some grouping on each side of the section cut?

I know you probably need something else, but this is the picture I get after reading your post. Perhaps TIGs SectionCutFace?

Thank you for the reply
This is exactly what I did, and the process too hours to complete and then the cut was "dirty" I had to manually fix several parts that for some reason didn't slice correctly :S

it's 24MB exploded, and if i look at the statistics = 36K faces.
The intersect process is still running in the background :S

Hello everyone

I'm having the usual issues with the Zorry section cut plugin and I would like to know if there's any other working method for splitting geometry. Right now I trying to intersect a plane with my model to split it but it has taken 20 mins and SU just hangs, i don't know why this application is so extremely slow arghh...
I hope there's a better way!

Regarding Zorry - I have tried to group everything but it still produces bug splat after 10mins or so. I have to tried to explode all geometry before grouping it too and the result is the same. It's so frustrating.

Does anyone know what is causing these weird artifacts when I'm rendering?

I have looked at the geometry and it's pretty clean :S

Thank you very much TIG, I'll test it soon

yes it looks perfect:) My problem is that the circular shapes I'm using in my design are differently scaled - some of them are 20meters in diameter so the 'jagged' faces are much more visible.

how many sides do you think I'll need? I have attached WIP to give an idea of the shapes involved and the detailing

I did a test with 100 sides and the polygons were visible so I guess it does require quite a lot :S

@dave r said:

I think the answer is in your question. Circles with 500 sides? Whatever for? Surely you don't need that many.

Hehe yeah 500 sides might be a lot, the reason for the many sides is that I just recently found out how to make smooth circles in SU and I didn't really think to much about the amount of sides I entered when model ling, I assumed that it would take a lot of sides to get a really smooth result? I need to import the SU model in 3Ds max when it's done and I wanted all circular shapes to be perfect. It might be overkill though, it is making my life hard with this complex geometry that's for sure!
thank you for the insight!

Thank you for this great tool!!
Sometimes when I use it it's very slow, it can take 10mins on a large model, is there any tips on speeding things up?
I have a current model with many round shapes and circles with 500 sides and so on, it takes forever.
I'm not trying to sound non-thankful, I just wondering if I can do something to make it go faster

@xplode35 said:

Seems like this plugin badly needs an update. Nothing's changed in 2 years???

I totally agree

It would be great if zorro had a feature to not delete the geometry but instead keep it as two seperate parts

It might be very simple but I don't know how to find a specific group in my model, I have problems cutting group #94 as it freezes but I don't know which group it is, is it possible to locate the #94 in some clever way?

I'm testing the plugin and it seems very nice! But when i try to create the 'tweens' no scenes are added, what could be wrong? V. 1.6

the file i'm working on has a ton of sub components and heavy geometry but I read that it shouldn't be a problem anymore?

I have tried to explode some of the components but it didn't help.

I tried to create tweens for a simple model and it worked.

.. OK I tried to explode everything and with 10FPS and 3 sec transitions it worked, but with 25fps and 30sec transitions it failed as before... this is very frustrating

update it works now, I don't know what went wrong at first try

Hello everyone!,

I'm looking for a way to reset scale of a group of components, I have tried the Scale and Rotate multiple script from chris fulmer but it doesn't change the size of my components if I choose more than 1 at a time, strange!

Is there another way?

I have 3 groups, each group has 500 components based on 3 different components and I have to scale the overall groups and the components are scaled too but I want to keep all instances of the components size the same :S

How do I get a model from Max into SU without ending up with tons of triangulated faces? Is it possible?

What is the status with VRay support? I couldn't locate the ticket at Chaosgroup.

Regards
Nick

solo: I'm not sure I can explain it so it makes sense, but I would like mimic parallel projection drawing in SU, so if I move a wall in the 'top' view i can see the result as i do it in the 'Left' view and so on, so in theory each view could hold different section cuts that "reacts/updates" in real time based on what I do in another view. This would be useful for my architecture study and sketch process.

Rich: Thanks I'll give it a try

I have found a sample file at the 3Dwarehouse that shows a way to do this with 4 versions of a component rotated, but it's very handy for modeling, so I hope something better is available ?

Does any add-on or plug-in exist that will turn SU into a quad screen interface like 3DSmax? So I could have a perspective area + Left, Right and Top view active at the same time? This would be awesome! I often lack the visual update from a design adjustment in one of the other views while I'm in the sketch process.

@gaieus said:

I see you have SU 8 Pro. In that case, Advanced Camera Tools

http://sketchup.google.com/intl/en/download/plugins.html#advcam

GREAT I'll dig in....

Thank you