Basically, the more geometry you section off, the more you’ll benefit! Other Notable Improvements and Changes Outliner While we were at it, we improved performance for models that use section planes to hide large amounts of geometry. Access troubleshoot mode through the section plane context menu when Section Fills are on. We’ll even help you troubleshoot geometry problems that are preventing SketchUp from recognizing the section you want to fill. When section fills are toggled on, SketchUp will render a fill on top of cleanly modeled sections. To access, open Styles > Edit > Modeling and toggle ‘Section Fills’ on or off, and set your desired fill color. We have added Filled Section Cuts to SketchUp 2018. Use Entity Info to edit naming conventions and organize section cuts into layers, then control the visibility of your section planes, cuts and fills via Styles.

Use Outliner to quickly find, select and edit specific planes. Your section plane is now a unique SketchUp entity that can be found in Outliner and manipulated in Entity Info. Here’s how it works…Ĭreate a new section plane and choose a name for it and a short symbol that will display in your modeling window. Now, even when your section planes are hidden, they’re right at your fingertips. It seems simple, but naming something is the first step towards making it easier to find, organize, and edit that something.

We’ve dialed in our IFC exporter to ensure that the attributes you bring in from other applications or manipulate in SketchUp stay with your work when it leaves SketchUp. IFC Export ImprovementsīIM doesn’t really work if information can’t move freely between applications. That means you can configure Generate Report to sum parts and quantities for schedules and cutlists, or create detailed pricing estimates by listing prices by layer.

In this release, we’re improving Generate Report to allow users to aggregate component data so you can extract and organize information contained in your models. We want to make the information in SketchUp models as useful as possible. You can now define the Price, Size and URL attributes when creating or editing components, as well as defining Owner and Status attributes for each component instance via the Entity Info dialog. Advanced Attributes allow you to embed useful information into your model when creating and managing components.

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