# Section Material

**URL:** <https://forums.sketchup.com/t/section-material/317369>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [March 4, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/section-material/317369 "2025-03-04T12:34:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![E-Farm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/e-farm/32/140100_2.png) [@E-Farm](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/E-Farm)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/section-material/317369/1 "2025-03-04T12:34:54Z")

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Would it be possible to create a custom ‘section material’, to be associated with a ‘normal’ material, so that the ‘section material’ is used for the fill when there is a section?  
Example: a solid with the brick material is sectioned, and the fill of the section is textured with the ‘section material’ (a pattern, for example).

 ![Proposta Implementaz Materiali](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/d/f/df681bf3d66d74fcfb2f53daffe54120b093f433.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![bmaxim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/bmaxim/32/232924_2.png) [@bmaxim](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/bmaxim)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/section-material/317369/2 "2025-03-04T12:57:51Z")

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Unfortunately, the SU section does not offer these options. However, some extensions can achieve this (Curic Section, Skalp, ConDoc, or manual layer overlay in LO)

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**Author:** ![RLGL](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/rlgl/32/44295_2.png) [@RLGL](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/RLGL)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/section-material/317369/3 "2025-03-04T16:24:55Z")

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Another extension: Section Cut Face by TIG… It is hosted on Sketchucation

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**Author:** ![DaveR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/daver/32/7601_2.png) [@DaveR](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/DaveR)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/section-material/317369/4 "2025-03-04T16:36:51Z")

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None of the extensions listed will address your feature request. Having a black and white hatch pattern that is associated with colored textures seems like a neat idea. I frequently use TIG’s Section Cut Face to generate faces at section cuts so I can add textures to them. Usually I add hatches. I have thought about what you suggest although I don’t have a good solution. I’m not sure there’s a way to implement it with SketchUp textures directly but I wonder if there’s a way an extension could manage it. I could see activating the extension, sampling the brick texture, and then clicking on the section cut face to apply a brick hatch material.