You may see 'holes' or gaps in the section plane geometry It will be necessary in many cases to manually edit the section You can change the color of this group if you like. It will have a solid color so that you can easily see imperfection in the section cut. SU Podium Section Tool creates a group called SUPodiumSectionCutFaces to represent the section plane. Close the SU Podium Section Tool dialog box when it appears that operations are complete. Crashing during a large model is not infrequent. You will see a new dialog box where the sectionĬut is complete.

If you click OK, a new file will open with the trimmed geometry. See the note at the bottom of this page.) (Windows users: Having trouble seeing the entire dialog box. The plugin operates and allowing the operation to be cancelled will be displayed. When the SU Podium Section Tool is activated, a dialog explaining exactly how You will see SU Podium Section Tool context menu option. Second, context click or right mouse click the selected SketchUp section plane. Select the SketchUp section plane and make sure it is active. Section feature to create a SketchUp section plane. Physical section plane will need to be manually edited to create a When your model is not optimally modeled, the When you have lots of intersecting geometry, there will beĭifficulties in working out which section should have what faces, and which These areĬreated automatically when you have closed geometry with no holes or It is important to note that creation of the physical section plane with SU Podium Section tool will depend on how well the geometry of yourīest results are obtained by using SketchUp 'solids'. skp file is named something like this - ModelName.skp using your computer's current date.

SU Podium Section Tool does not change your original model but makes a copy of the current model in the This enables you to use SU Podium V2 Plus to render the physically sectioned model. Section Tool creates a 'physical' section of your model where the selected SketchUp section plane is located. If your are SketchUp 2014 or SketchUp 2015, 32 bit, and you want to use Section Tool, you will need to download and install from the free plugin page. But it is not included in the V2.5 for SketchUp 2014 or 2015, 32 bit version due to problems with SketchUp's 32 bit versions. Section Tool is included in the SU Podium V2.5 SketchUp 2015, 64 bit Win/ Mac version.

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