Is it possible to create a section face that doesn’t show interior geometry? In this example, I have two touching walls, each is a separate solid object. I would like the section face to give the appearance that the two walls are one object without the connecting edge (with red arrow), is this possible?
You can hide the end of the right hand wall and draw a rectangle on the left hand wall to match the end of the right hand one and hide its face. But Section Fill won’t work.
Hi Dave, thanks for your help. Perhaps there might be a plugin that has this feature?
You could use TiG’s Add Section Cut Face and hide or delete unwanted edges. You can apply materials and colors to the faces, too.
It’s available from Sketchucation.
If you match your section face color to the line color, then I imagine it’d become invisible. Another suggestion is to combine the solids, but I have a feeling you want separate groups… If so, then you could duplicate your file, then combine the solids (outer shell command for SketchUp Pro or SketchUp Free) for a section view export.
You can try with Curic Section & Hidden plugins
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Or Eneroth Visual Merge, I believe?
SketchUp’s native section fills doesn’t work for hidden faces. There has been a couple of threads on this topic and I’ve even met the product managers to discuss this behavior at the Basecamp. As this is a limitation in the way SketchUp finds what to fill, I don’t think extensions can do much about it.
That would have to be an extension like Skalp that has its own section fill feature, independent from the native one. I don’t know if Skalp actually supports this though.
the best recommendation I can make for now is to use a black section fill, and the cut line will not be seen.
Wow, thank-you everyone, very helpful suggestions and few things for me to try.
Apologies for posting to this old thread.
This is something that has bothered me over the years and I use Layout line work to mask the edges where solids abut - which is tedious.
As an experiment, following on from what Forestr mentioned…
I created one viewport with the section lines set to 1 and the same colour as the fill.
This viewport is then stacked over a viewport where the section line is the colour you want and the SketchUp section line / Layout line scale set appropriately.
Is this easier than creating Layout linework - I think so. But it creates some additional undesirable effects that I need to address with more careful modelling.
Sounds like an interesting approach. So does that mean you are creating two scens using the same section cut?
What sort of side effects.
Yes Dave, two of the same scene.
These are just minor I think, but more bothersome perhaps is that the overlay scene masks too much of the line weight of the underlay scene so I have to bump up the line weight…
Left is my current setup and right is the experiment:
Offset the overlay scene to show the underlay scene:
Anyway, something to play around with.
Ahh… The masking of the edges. I’ve got an idea to try. Back later.
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