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Getting Started with SketchUp Pro

You're reading from   Getting Started with SketchUp Pro Embark on your 3D modeling adventure with expert tips, tricks, and best practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789800180
Length 658 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – User Interface and Beginning Modeling!
2. Chapter 1: Beginning with SketchUp Pro FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Principal Tools, Axes, and Inferences 4. Chapter 3: Modeling with Groups and Components 5. Chapter 4: Drawing Tools – We Begin Modeling! 6. Chapter 5: Editing Tools – Making Big Changes! 7. Part 2 – Views, Animations, and Materials
8. Chapter 6: Camera Options 9. Chapter 7: View Options 10. Chapter 8: Materials 11. Part 3 – Advanced Modeling and Model Organization
12. Chapter 9: Entity Info, Outliner, and Tags Dynamically Organize Your Models 13. Chapter 10: Model Info and Preferences 14. Chapter 11: Working with Components 15. Chapter 12: Import, Export, 3D Warehouse, and Extensions 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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SketchUp Pro allows you to cut the model along a 2D plane to see inside the model. This can be done by placing a Section Plane! Sections are common tools used in professional drawings to show how the inside of a part or building works, and SketchUp allows this Section functionality in real time in working models. Sections do not require you to Move or Hide any Geometry to see inside the model – the Section Plane tool takes care of that automatically. Active Section Planes hide all Geometry on one side of the Section Plane in the current model, Group, or Component, while showing the Geometry on the other side.

The Section Plane tool can be found on the Large Tool Set with the Camera tools, but all of the Section View options can be found in the View dropdown in the Menu and the Section toolbar. The Section Plane tool is represented by a section callout, which is a circle with the view name inscribed and a section arrow pointing to the right:

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