I am having a really awkward time trying to save my scenes with section cuts. Unlike in every tutorial I have seen, the wireframe “handles” don’t appear. The only ways to select the section cut and manipulate it are to click on a filled part of the cut or select it in the outliner window. Selecting/deselecting “section cuts”, “section planes”, and “section fill” don’t cause the handles to appear. I’ve also tried messing with style settings and found nothing. This only occurs in the desktop app; the web-based editor displays section cuts as expected.
See the attached picture: the section cut is selected but is only visible where it intersects the model or as a barely perceptible brightening of the background. What’s going on?
If you zoom way way out can you see the rest of the section?
Sometimes you can have tiny little things or even hidden objects that cause their bounding box to be much further from the object you are trying to actually section
Which version of SketchUp really? SketchUp for Schools is a browser-based version for school children. SketchUp 2026 Desktop is not SketchUp for Schools.
Share your SketchUp file so we can see what we see on a different machine to rule out hardware.
If it works for you, my answer might have been too sure from a person who doesn’t use a Mac. I wonder if updating something in MacOS might make @DrBrapp ‘s Mac work as well as yours. Or is @DrBrapp using the latest maintenance version of SketchUp 2026, and is SketchUp correctly installed?
I downloaded and installed Sketchup 2026 just yesterday, although I have had older versions installed previously that I suppose could be causing weird interactions. My laptop is fairly old by now and has an intel GPU, so it could be older Intel GPUs that are affected, not CPUs.
It could be the iris graphics I suppose. Mine is an 8GB Radeon (old but not integrated graphics). I’ve never had a problem of any kind attributable to SketchUp’s new graphics engine.
