Hi there
I’d like to know if anyone has ever used the hatch patterns to fill in section fills when doing a section cut.
Another designer told me she chose the pattern from the drop down menu at the section fill colour option and she just painted the section cut with the pattern rather than a colour. But I’ve searched it and I don’t have that option despite having the latest Sketchup.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks - see pic attached
Paula
I do that practically every time I create a section cut. I use TIG’s Section Cut Face from Sketchucation to create actual faces which can them be given hatches or other textures.
These were done that way.
Spark Plug
Steam Whistle
Thank you Dave. Exactly. I need it to show a wall cut, joinery cut, etc.
I’ll give it a try in the morning and report back.
Thank you.
Paula
Hello Dave,
Your drawings are beautiful.
I was currently browsing the community posts to find if a solution to section fills had been created and I found this conversation. I am currently working on a project and have used Curic Section, Skalp, and tried Tig’s face from section. Curic Section is unstable, Skalp is too slow, and I do not fully understand TIG’s face from section
In the first drawing in your post, different hatches are used for face.sections. I need to give different patterns or colors to sections of a building. What is the process that you followed with TIG’s program to accomplish the hatches in the drawing.
I used the current version of SketchUp.
Thank you,
Glenn Richardson
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Do the hatch patterns update if the section changes?
Hi Glen,
Thank you.
When I do these sorts of things with a single section cut I just use the default material and I unlock the resulting group in the UI (which you access by right clicking on the section plane and choosing Add Section Cut Face.) Then I open the object for editing and apply the material(s).
They can be set to update automatically if you move the section cut or whatever. In order for that to happen you have to select an already existing material from the Color drop down and enable Auto-Update.
If I wanted to take advantage of that for the spark plug I would need to add a separate section cut to each object that gets a different material/color since you can only add one for a give section cut face with the extension.
It is very time consuming to make separate cuts for different materials in an architectural section. Building change many times during design. What is one to do to work around the problem of not being able to document materials in building sections? I spend so much time trying to create 2D from a SketchUp mode. Any Advice?
Thank you,
GBR
Also, if one makes multiple sections cuts to delineate material, Layout view ports would have to be layered to create a section. I have not had luck layering view ports in Layout. Updating the view ports does not always give correct results. I do not want give up SketchUp, but if I can’t produce working drawings, what do I do?
I haven’t used either Curic Section or Skalp so I can’t address them at all. It does seem they are both popular for architectural work. In the commercial work I do I tend to delay detailing such as adding materials to section cut faces until the design is at least nearly carved in stone. I prefer to keep my models as simple to edit when designs change or other updates come along. That may or may not work for you.
Maybe an alternative would be to create separate objects that are cut at the section plane. For example you might have a full height wall and a second one that is cut off midway through the windows. Each tagged differently. Then swap tags depending on what you want to see in a given scene or viewport.
Not necessarily.
I wonder what you are doing in the setup that causes that. I stack viewports frequently and always have dependable results. Most often I use the same scene for all viewports in the stack. I can change visible tags and styles as needed for each viewport. I’m also AR about never modifying the scene’s Camera properties.
Our wall sections are composed of multiple objects,( brick, block 2x4’s, etc.) each on separate Tags. I can control what is cut in a section by what Tag is active. I would like to communicate what materials make up a wall when a section is drawn by a hatch pattern or color. For example, if I used TIG’s Section Cut, I could make scenes for each material in the wall and give each material a pattern. How would I create a section drawing combining all the section cuts? I can upload a project if that would help.
I am familiar with using multiple scenes in one viewport in Layout, but not using the same (SketchUp?) scene for stacking viewports.
I am being called and will upoad a drawing this evening if you have time to give me advice. Please let me know.
Thanks
This is where Curic Section shines - as long as your entities are solid and they’re on the proper Tags, they will always show the correct material you assign. Another nice feature that Curic Section has is the ability to assign optional (up to 3) materials to the same objects or tags (though not all visible at the same time). This is especially useful for our work where the same object can have different materials assigned for a plan view or section view without having to do additional workarounds.
I have used an Extension called Condoc Tools. In Condoc Tools, to create a floor plan, multiple scenes are created. For example, one scene for exterior walls, one for interior walls, one for fixtures, and etc. Each scene has different hatching and line weights to accomplish the desired look. All the scenes are sent to layout and stacked. This multiple stacking would work if all Tags were correct but caused layout to freeze or not to update changes consistently.
How to add hatch pattern to a section fill instead of colour - #15 by DaveR
I agree that the ability to control the hatch inside SketchUp is much better than trying to control stacking in Layout. I will keep trying Curic. Thank you for the reply.
One method is to model with all front faces facing outward, and use the appropriate hatch on the back face (inside of material). This would allow a hatch for a vinyl window to be different from hatch of insulation, wood, or drywall. If the window is a component as an example, outside is painted with whichever vinyl color you choose, and a hatch is on the back faces, when it is cut by section, you would see that pattern. If you are looking from an angle, it might not read correct however.
