Dear Sketchup,
Please, please, please add a decent hatching tool to Sketchup. I use Skalp but that is quite buggy…Oh and line weights 
Thanks in advance!
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I wonder if this would be a tool or a style setting.
Wondering because the current section cut face color is a style setting. But this is global at this time.
It certainly would be an easier workflow if section cut faces could be hatch painted with a tool like the bucket tool. (Maybe a section brush tool?)
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In an earlier discussion I suggested that a vector hatch option could be added to SketchUp materials, using the same kind of .pat files used by Autodesk and other CAD applications. Then a style setting could determine whether SketchUp would display the hatch pattern or colour/texture.
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Because .skm files are a zip container adding pattern files or SVG or whatever would be easy.
I’d think that older SketchUp versions would just ignore anything inside the archives that they didn’t expect. 
If it’s simple 'decent ’ hatching for in Layout, i.e. vector, then I discovered this discussion at Skectucation:
https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=66503
I’m not suggesting it’s necessarily a solution for everyone… (it works for me)
And as for lineweights, then if it’s for Layout, you could look into Mike Brightman’s method of stacked viewports in Layout.
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Hi Paul, I tried all sorts of “workarounds” but, I think, this should be a standard tool as Sketchup wants to present itself as “all you need” as an architect. I get details and sections cuts how they should be drawn in the end, but it still is a struggle. Let’s be honest, Layout is still too buggy an way to slow to do with what it should do, but yes I 've found “workarounds”. I love SU, for more than 18 years, but it just needs that tiny perfection to become a complete tool for architects, interior architects and designers.
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Or add a pattern generator to the forgotten StyleBuilder App
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I second that… It’s one of most frustrating things when creating architectural plans to not be able to create proper vector hatches. I use Skalp also but it’s so slow and buggy that it’s frustrating to work with… Even just adding an option to use material on section cuts would be a big improvement already.
Please learn from Skalp and build a native solution.
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adding styles to SB would be handy…
it’s only ever been an ‘raster’ edge builder with limited usefulness…
john
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I believe the hatching should be a Layout feature with the option to dynamically link hatch patterns to SketchUp materials, Sketchup tags, and Layout layers.
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Exactly!
Yes I agree - this would be valuable. So Concrete in SketchUp looks like a rendered material, but in LO it look slike a hatch pattern.
Or a how about a new type of Face Style, so we would have:
Wireframe
Hidden Line
Shaded
Shaded with Hatches
Shaded with Textures
Monochrome
Or, make the Shaded mode include hatches/patterns?
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Contemplating this a little more, I would actually be content if there was a Standard set of hatch patterns of a really good quality - maybe a set with Landscape, Architecture and Engineering patterns, all High-res and with some customisation (colour, reverse, etc).
Not sure where it fits into this discussion but a lot of options are missing from LO including the patterns that get applied to things like Fences, Insulation, Walls, etc. These are “complex” line styles are often displayed as a hatch. (Usually I make them with custom rotated hatch patterns, but it’s an annoying process).
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Still no hatching options for section fills in Layout 2021! 
But thank god they changed the SketchUp logo! (grmpff)
By marking it as a solved thread, the FR get’s lost…
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This needs to happen ASAP. Not that difficult surely. Sketchup is presented as architectural design software and it lacks this crucial capability. Such a shame.
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