Including sections

We would be remiss if we wrote a book about SketchUp without reviewing sections. As mentioned earlier in the book, we assume you are familiar with the basics of SketchUp, including creating a section plane, cut, and fill, and modifying them. For architectural drafters or interior designers, incorporating and utilizing sections is a routine aspect of their work. We’ll provide a brief review of this crucial feature.

After the practice file for this chapter was uploaded to 3D Warehouse, we added an underground parking garage beneath the building. Your model won’t include the parking garage shown in this section.

Figure 6.67: Underground parking garage added to the model shown using a Section Cut

Here is our scenario for creating the section – for an upcoming client presentation on this project, they requested a section cut revealing both floors of the building and the parking garage.

1. To achieve this...