topic 3D cut view question.... in Modeling

3D cut view question....

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2023 12:26:23 GMT

Hi, Ive looked around for a solution for this but cant find an answer...

Is it possible to make a 3D window cut view that allows me to cut away a portion of the model but only on a certain story, leaving the other stories visible and intact?

For example, I want to be able to make a cut view looking into the corner of a building, cutting away a section of the interior and exterior walls, the roof and ceiling but leaving the ground floor slab intact and still visible.

thanks

Re: 3D cut view question....

David Maudlin — Wed, 20 May 2015 12:24:47 GMT

strawbale:

I think the only way is to use SEO. But the operator(s) will need to be moved away from the model for other complete views (cannot be turned on/off).

David

Re: 3D cut view question....

Anonymous — Wed, 20 May 2015 12:44:45 GMT

thanks David, appreciated

Re: 3D cut view question....

Link — Wed, 20 May 2015 15:17:36 GMT

Interesting that a 3D Marquee doesn't work when set to show elements outside marquee.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: 3D cut view question....

David Maudlin — Thu, 21 May 2015 13:14:25 GMT

Link wrote:
Interesting that a 3D Marquee doesn't work when set to show elements outside marquee.

Enable the "Trim Elements to Marquee" box.
There is not as much control over the vertical cut heights using that method vs. SEO.

David

Re: 3D cut view question....

Link — Thu, 21 May 2015 13:33:56 GMT

Yes I had just unchecked that momentarily while I was testing it. Even though the marquee has a vertical range, it still seems to show things outside the marquee on one story only. Bit of a usability bug IMO.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: 3D cut view question....

Anonymous — Thu, 21 May 2015 17:07:50 GMT

The SOE solution works very well for the moment.

Would be nice if AC had a 3D marquee object, visible on the 2D plan view as well as 3D window.

Re: 3D cut view question....

JaredBanks — Mon, 25 May 2015 20:43:59 GMT

It is (or was) possible to make SEO turn on or off with Layer Intersection Groups. I haven't tried the trick in years, so I don't know how well it works in 18 (or 19). But if you set the Operator Layer to have a 0 Layer Intersection Group, it theoretically shouldn't interact with other elements.

Here's a post I wrote about it a while back:

http://www.shoegnome.com/2011/06/19/conditional-operatorsv1/

Re: 3D cut view question....

Anonymous — Wed, 27 May 2015 15:48:35 GMT

JaredBanks wrote:
It is (or was) possible to make SEO turn on or off with Layer Intersection Groups. I haven't tried the trick in years, so I don't know how well it works in 18 (or 19). But if you set the Operator Layer to have a 0 Layer Intersection Group, it theoretically shouldn't interact with other elements.

Here's a post I wrote about it a while back:

http://www.shoegnome.com/2011/06/19/conditional-operatorsv1/

Ive tried experimenting with SOE and the layer intersection groups. Unless Im doing something wrong it doesnt seem to have an effect.

I also played around with using a material set to highest strength to cut the model which gives interesting results as obviously PBC will only work with certain building elements.