# Section lines doesn't appear correctly **URL:** \ **Category:** SketchUp\ **Tags:** bug\ **Created:** [September 9, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/section-lines-doesnt-appear-correctly/289215 "2024-09-09T23:16:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pemattos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7c8e57/32.png) [@pemattos](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/pemattos)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/section-lines-doesnt-appear-correctly/289215/1 "2024-09-09T23:16:16Z")
Can anyone tell me how to fix this bug about the section planes line not appearing correctly in Sketchup? This image shows a line appearing and another that is bugged. It is important to appear correctly so that I can insert a section plan scrapbook into the layout (as I don’t like this representation of sketchup’s default section cut line), but for this I need to have as a reference the correct position of where the cut is being made. . ![Screenshot_1](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/2/2/22f1bd4550b25cd34f3333c6b980dcbdf3fe0b73.png) ---
**Author:** ![Wo3Dan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/wo3dan/32/7450_2.png) [@Wo3Dan](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/Wo3Dan)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 11:31pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/section-lines-doesnt-appear-correctly/289215/2 "2024-09-09T23:31:22Z")
> [@pemattos](#): > > Can anyone tell me how to fix this bug about the section planes line not appearing correctly For better understanding of what is going on and a correct answer you need to share the model file, not only an image. ---
**Author:** ![pemattos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7c8e57/32.png) [@pemattos](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/pemattos)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/section-lines-doesnt-appear-correctly/289215/4 "2024-09-10T00:05:22Z")
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**Author:** ![bmike](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/bmike/32/225451_2.png) [@bmike](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/bmike)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/section-lines-doesnt-appear-correctly/289215/6 "2024-09-10T10:27:49Z")
@Wo3Dan - the OP is talking about the section plane references not showing up in LayOut in plan view… SKP ![Screenshot 2024-09-10 at 12.22.47](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/9/d/9da176e0f871b85c1ab638328c88c2307faa381b.png) LO Plan view: ![Screenshot 2024-09-10 at 12.27.00](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/e/2/e21fed794affced7228075f8b97a6a672bc963ff.jpeg) LO 3d view: ![Screenshot 2024-09-10 at 12.27.06](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/c/2/c294b1ed272a47a62ed42e25783b2f0114f87b5c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![egodsey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/egodsey/32/87600_2.png) [@egodsey](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/egodsey)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 6:36pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/section-lines-doesnt-appear-correctly/289215/7 "2024-09-10T18:36:51Z")
Seems like the problem is related to hiding the horizontal cutting planes. The problem is evident in the original file. ![Screenshot 2024-09-10 13.15.24](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/c/f/cfa0ca7acea7ebcceeb3d5d7a9ebf6da2fc1f249.png) But after unhiding the horizontal cutting planes … updating the scene … then selecting the horizontal cutting planes and hiding them again … and then updating the scene a second time … the problem seems to have gone away. ![Screenshot 2024-09-10 13.32.48](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/f/9/f9c38e1f5eb1d26edb5f850a947f2c1206d06189.png) Obviously this is NOT an explanation of WHY it is happening … but perhaps it is a useful “work around.” ---
**Author:** ![bmike](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/bmike/32/225451_2.png) [@bmike](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/bmike)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 6:41pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/section-lines-doesnt-appear-correctly/289215/8 "2024-09-10T18:41:10Z")
Nice find. I wonder if instead of hiding using a layer would work better… ---
**Author:** ![egodsey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/egodsey/32/87600_2.png) [@egodsey](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/egodsey)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/section-lines-doesnt-appear-correctly/289215/9 "2024-09-10T18:52:00Z")
@bmike … good question. Currently all of the cutting planes are Tagged the same. So, as you suggested, I tried putting all of the horizontal cutting planes on a new, separate Tag … and then hiding that Tag. That did not seem to fix the original problem with the visibility of the vertical cutting planes. ---
**Author:** ![pemattos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7c8e57/32.png) [@pemattos](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/pemattos)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/section-lines-doesnt-appear-correctly/289215/10 "2024-09-10T19:56:49Z")
> [@egodsey](#): > > Currently all of the cutting planes are Tagged the same. So, as you suggested, I tried putting all of the horizontal cutting planes on a new, separate Tag … and then hiding that Tag. > > That did not seem to fix the original problem with the visibility of the vertical cutting planes. How did you hide it? via the sections menu icon? I tested it here and it still didn’t work ---
**Author:** ![egodsey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/egodsey/32/87600_2.png) [@egodsey](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/egodsey)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/section-lines-doesnt-appear-correctly/289215/11 "2024-09-10T20:57:31Z")
The setting of the Hidden vs Unhidden attribute was done via the Select pull down menu … Hide/Unhide. And the actual turning on/off of the visibility of the Section Planes was then done via the View pull down menu … checking or unchecking “Hidden Objects.” Obviously saving the Scene with the new attributes was essential. Also … I was selecting/deselecting the horizontal section planes only after changing the camera position to get a clear “off axis” view of the horizontal section planes … see screen shot below. ![Screenshot 2024-09-10 15.41.32](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/c/5/c5565348bc64e077eca34193a961d291afb4cfe7.png) And then after updating the Scene with these new attributes I then had to update the Scene a second time with the correct (original) orthogonal camera position. ![Screenshot 2024-09-10 15.51.04](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/7/9/79b7450e8adebc109e34ec487024c1e7b3ec517d.png) Also, please note, I am doing all of this in SketchUp 2024. Do not know if that is an issue or not. ---
**Author:** ![pemattos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7c8e57/32.png) [@pemattos](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/pemattos)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/section-lines-doesnt-appear-correctly/289215/12 "2024-09-10T21:43:11Z")
> [@egodsey](#): > > The setting of the Hidden vs Unhidden attribute was done via the Select pull down menu … Hide/Unhide. > > And the actual turning on/off of the visibility of the Section Planes was then done via the View pull down menu … checking or unchecking “Hidden Objects.” Now it worked. When I was doing it in plan view it didn’t work, but I changed the camera position and it worked. ---
**Author:** ![pemattos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7c8e57/32.png) [@pemattos](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/pemattos)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/section-lines-doesnt-appear-correctly/289215/13 "2024-09-10T21:43:51Z")
Thank you very much for your patience, it helped me a lot ---
**Author:** ![pemattos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7c8e57/32.png) [@pemattos](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/pemattos)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 9:54pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/section-lines-doesnt-appear-correctly/289215/14 "2024-09-10T21:54:30Z")
ANOTHER SOLUTION: Use the mouse scroll to orbit and change the camera position, move the section plane, press ctrl+z to return to the initial position, click again in the scene. Click once more and quickly update the scene. It also worked ---
**Author:** ![Wo3Dan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/wo3dan/32/7450_2.png) [@Wo3Dan](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/Wo3Dan)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 8:20pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/section-lines-doesnt-appear-correctly/289215/15 "2024-09-11T20:20:37Z")
[ > [@bmike](#): > > @Wo3Dan - the OP is talking about the section plane references not showing up in LayOut in plan view… @bmike, how could I have missed this? The OP’s red line threw me off. You are right in that his question is about the BB-\>BB line and the CC-\>CC line are missing in top view. (This issue has been mentioned before) Thank you for making me look/read a little bit better.