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Hello people and welcome to this new class in

where we're going to see the section plane tool.

We can find this tool here in this position.

It is part of the cameras set to,

but at the same time,

it has its own tool set.

These toolset is this one.

And if in your case it is closed,

you will have to click right button in

the upper bar and look for section here where

this set bar has four buttons and normally it

comes with the last two of them already clicked.

So take that into account.

This one and this one are already pressed.

That's the reason because they have

this blue field cholera around.

Anyways, let's start from the beginning.

The first option is called Section Plane,

and the description says the row section planes

to expose interior details in the model.

So let's click it.

I feed the tool, and then when I hover over my model,

you will see how different section planes bought up.

And depending in what plane I am,

hover my mouse, I will take one plane or another.

Let's choose e.g. this plane

orthogonal to the green axis, one-click unreleased.

And then this window pops up in where I

can write down the name of that section.

Section one is okay.

I can change even the symbol of that section plane.

I can even click this up soon if I want

to avoid this window in the future.

And my section plane is already

there in this orange color.

The symbol is number one.

And now it will work exactly the

same as all the geometry in SketchUp.

I mean, I can select it just by clicking on it.

Then it becomes blue and I can move it,

move tool, one click and release.

I move myself along the axis.

And then that section plane is cutting

my model from a different position, right?

Once I'm happy with the result,

second click on my section plane is

already placed in these new spot.

The color is still blue,

which means that the section plane is still selected.

If I hit the selection tool by clicking space key,

one click outside, and

the section plane is already selected.

As you can check. Now, the second option

has been automatically breast,

because if we read the description,

it says title section planes on and off.

Now we have in our drawing one section plane,

and in this very moment it is on.

But if I select it and I use this second option,

I can toggle it on or off,

one-click and I toggle that section playing

off another click and I toggle it on.

The third option is talking about this section cat.

It says Toggle section cuts on an off.

Now it is on.

And if I say one-click and it is off.

So here we have to distinguish between the section plane.

This is the section plane and the section cut.

When the section cut is off,

it means that this section plane

is like not working at all.

It's doing nothing.

It's just a plane.

They're like normal geometry.

But if the section cut is on,

that plane, is cutting our model.

The fourth option is talking about the section.

This section fill is now on.

We can see it here.

Now is blue because the section plane is selected.

But if we deselect it,

then we can check that the sexiest fill is black.

We will be able to change that color.

But thanks to this fourth option,

we can toggle on and off that section field now is off.

The section field now is empty.

We have this emptiness

typical from any model in a schizont.

Let's toggle it on.

I zoom out.

And once we have learned

everything about this section toolbar,

Let's see more possibilities that this section toolbar is

offering us in SketchUp

because this is not all that we can do.

Firstly, we will select the section plane right button.

And here, first of all,

we will be able to toggle on and

off that section plan as we were doing before.

But we will find here new options to e.g.

this reverse option, our section plane has

some arrows on its corners pointing in one direction.

If we click reverse,

we are changing that direction along the green axis.

And then we are cutting

our model in the opposite direction,

again, right bottom reverse.

Another thing that we can do is aligned view.

We can align the position of

the camera as we used to do with

normal geometry and even use

the parallel projection camera.

This is the typical view for using our section plane.

We don't want the perspective view normally.

One is the BCG perspective right button again.

And the next option is called Create Group from slides.

This could be interesting.

Let's do it.

One-click. It seems that nothing happened,

but you can check that here we have something selected.

I will toggle off the section cut,

and I will toggle off as well this section plane,

look that we have here,

this line across all the model.

I will select it and I will move it out from the model.

What we have here is a group

with that slice of the model inside.

If I open the entity Info tray,

it says that this element is a group.

We can go inside this group by clicking twice.

Then we'll be able to use these slides for

our purpose in the way that we consider the best escape.

Let's come back to our model.

I will toggle on

the section plane and then look what happened.

The section plane now is longer.

It comes to the end of this group,

will see what is going on just in few minutes.

But before that, let's select

again that section plane right bottom.

And I want to show you this last option which is very,

very powerful slice model at section,

if I hit this upsilon,

what I'm doing as that option set is slice the model.

So now the rest of the model has been delighted.

This could be very powerful, as I said,

but of course, it depends on our purpose.

This time, I don't want to lose the rest of the model.

So I'll go one step back.

Control set.

I will select again my section plane.

I toggle on the section cut

right button on the section plane aligned view.

I will zoom in.

I will deselect this section plane.

And now I want to show you how can I

change thickness of the section cat

and the color of the section pill?

I will need to use another tray,

a new one called styles.

We will see these styles tray in any specific episode

because we have here almost endless possibilities.

And one of those possibilities

is to play with the thickness and

the field of our sections will need to go over edit.

And then here we have different possibilities.

The last one is called modelling settings.

Once you hit it,

then you will find more options.

And these last two are section and section lines.

Here we are talking about the color.

I can change it easily,

let's say red color, e.g.

then the section field is already red.

We can change the color of

the section lines as well and the width.

Let's say e.g. instead of three,

let's say six, the double Enter.

Now you can check in our drawing

how the thickness has increased.

So finally, let's talk about

why this section plane became longer.

I will toggle off

the section gut and I will click on my model.

Then look that this model is

placed inside a group or component box.

I can check it on the entity Info. It is a component.

If I go now over the outliner,

we can check here the structure of our drawing.

We have one component called Italy pavilion.

Then we have a group,

which is this new group that we did before.

And we have one section plane.

This section, if we focus on

this Italy pavilion and we expand this component,

we can find that here we have another four components.

This one, which is this guy,

another guy here, another one and another one.

And then we have four groups.

The white one, the red one,

the green one, and this white rectangular cube.

So the thing is that when we are using a section plane,

that section plane is going to fit

the size of our different groups or components.

And if we don't have any group or component,

that section plane will expand till the next geometry.

I mean, here we have a component box.

If I click on the section plane and I

create a new section plane pointing the same direction.

Click Name section two symbol to

this section plane as it is not

placed inside the component box,

but outside, is taking the length of all the geometry

that he is finding in

our drawing till the beginning of this model,

to the end of this,

another model, I will erase it.

And then let's do another example.

If this time I go inside these components box,

click, click sex and plan again,

same direction named Section 33.

Okay, now you can check how

this section plane is fitting.

The size of our component box

is not going outside that box, I click outside.

And now we have two section planes in our drove in,

one inside that component box and the other one outside.

Imagine e.g. that I want to

just this red part of the model.

How should I do it?

First of all, I have to go inside this component box.

Click, click, then I will select this red model.

It is a group. Then I have to go inside this group.

Click, click, and once I am inside section plane,

I select the correct position

of my section plane, name and symbol.

Okay?

Here it is.

Now just is a matter of plays my section plane in

the correct spot and play with

our different options as we already learned,

the good thing about this is that we can combine

different section planes in the same drawing.

I mean, now we have

this vertical section plane

inside this group. And then e.g.

it could be interesting if I

use inside this group another section plane,

but this time in this and other position,

in a horizontal position,

click Section five, symbol five.

I select this section plane.

I move it along the blue axis.

Click here, I have the result. Here.

Pay attention because this is a little bit tricky.

This horizontal section cannot interact with

this vertical section because they are in the same group,

but it can interact with this another vertical section,

because this vertical section is in another group.

Let's do it.

So I go out from that group,

I select this number three section, I move it.

We can see how this section is cutting our model and now

look how it's interacting with that number phi section.

So we can create complex cuttings in our model.

I deselect everything.

I could hide the section planes.

And here we have the result.

If the width of the section lines is too much,

remember, we should go over styles, modelling settings.

Let's say three again.

The section fetal, let's say

again black because I prefer it.

Now, there's one last tip.

Imagine that you want to toggle off

just one section plane.

Not all of them when you are

working with many different sects and planes,

you don't have to do it by using the section to set,

because here we are taking over

all the section planes at the same time.

So e.g. if we want to

toggle off that horizontal section plane,

we should go inside that group.

So one-click,

two clicks to go inside this first component,

I select the correct group.

I click twice.

Once I am inside,

I would toggle on the section planes.

I will select the correct one, right button.

And then I have to use this option and this selected.

Here we have the result,

just that section plane has been toggled off.

I can go out from all of the groups.

I can toggle off all this axiom planes.

And here we have the final result.

Well, this is all about sections.

I strongly recommend you to practice because it can be

a little bit tricky when we are

playing with different sections,

at the same time, with

different groups, with different components.

But at the same time is very

fruitful because we can really do amazing things.

So I say goodbye.

Don't hesitate if you have any gaps to leave a comment.

And I see you in the next class.