I’m having an strange issue with SU Sections. When making a Section of a floor plan and saving the scene with Section fill it, looks fine in SketchUp. However when imported to Layout some of the fill is not there. This doesn’t seem to be regular. In some cases I have redrawn the part that the fill hasn’t taken and sometimes it seems to fix the problem and other times it makes no difference.. On other occasions, it happens somewhere else. I found a similar question that suggested increasing the viewpoint - that didn’t help or convert to Raster which is useless for a plan print. Is the only answer to create a group from Slice and stack the viewport? Seems very labour intensive and not too efficient. Any other ideas?
Please post the LO file so we can see what you have set up.
Clive 1 Layout.layout (9.6 MB)
I see the problem.
@Barry any ideas? Try the viewport as raster, and it’s ok, but as vector or hybrid the left half doesn’t show the section fill.
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That’s correct
I have this happen from time to time. Often it’s a solids issue, or I have some geometry padding too close to the cut or too close to another face near the cut, sometimes moving the cut location helps, but I tried this before teaching my class today and it didn’t work. Making it solid also didn’t help, nor did deleting the extra geometry on the walls.
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Thank you for you interest and input. Tried everything I can think of today and not solved it. DO you think the only answer is to create the group from slice and overlay it in LO? I’ve had this before I think some time ago.
Yes. Or use Section Cut Face Plugin.
It won’t take long. Make the slice. Put it on a tag.
Then:
Duplicate the scene. Turn all the tags off except the slice. Stack viewports (duplicate the one you have, select the scene with the slice, turn it on, be sure it is on top of the other viewport.
Or
Move the slice down a small amount so it is visible. Keep it on in your scene. Match the color of your slice to the section cut color.
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I was going to suggest Section Cut Face, too. It works fine on your model. No need to move the section cut face nor stack viewports. All I did here is add the section cut face, turn off Section Fill, and update the style.
The extension places the section cut face very slightly behind the section cut so it’ll be displayed with the section cut.
Still would be a good idea to assign a tag to the section cut face, though.
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I did try moving the section cut upwards, but still saw the problem.
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