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Styles for section cuts - SketchUp Tutorial
From the course: SketchUp for Architecture
Styles for section cuts
- Chapter 805, we're going to be looking at styles that control these things, okay? The section planes, the section cuts, and this thing, if you've got the pro version, the Section Fill. Now, the reason we need to understand how this works is because when we start applying styles to scenes, then it can get very messy in this window, where styles are being generated for all sorts of different reasons, and we need to be able to control them and understand exactly what's going on with them. So, the reason we're doing this is because we want to be able to control a style that either has a cut or doesn't have cut. I'm not really a fan of seeing section planes in a drawing, I'd much rather just have the cut, and then do something different in layout or something, but we do need to be able to control the way in which the model is either showing a cut or not. But, we'll just go through the process with the Shaded, because it's a much faster style. I've also hidden the planting at the front…
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