topic Shaded sides in 3D cut plane in Modeling

Shaded sides in 3D cut plane

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2023 14:27:34 GMT

After seeing this cool video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CaZQUywIxY, I wanted to check out the intersection of my walls and slabs in 3D as well. But when I use a 3D Cut Plane, all I get are shaded cut surfaces. How can I make the actual cut surfaces appear? And how is it that in the video everything looks so realistic?

Also, in the section view, how can you make the object surfaces and the cut fills appear together? I only manage black and white fills, or colored surfaces, I want something like the one in the attachment. Thanks!!

Re: Shaded sides in 3D cut plane

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 02:03:19 GMT

This is a marketing video, not actual ArchiCAD footage.
You can see that it is fully rendered, and as far as I know from the Marketing guys, it was achieved in Cinema 4D.
Its purpose is to nicely illustrate the functionality.

Re: Shaded sides in 3D cut plane

James B — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 08:42:47 GMT

In 3D, you should check Cut Surface Display settings. Go to: View > Elements in 3D View > Filter and Cut Elements in 3D.
You'll see Cut Surface Display, and make sure "Use Element Attributes" is used - this will display the Building Material's Surfaces instead of a unified Surface.
For Sections/Elevations, check their Settings under "Model Display" and see what setting you have for "Cut Display" > Fill Cut Surface with:

To change the appearance of any Cut Surface (fill/pens/surface) then you can select an element and open the Building Materials settings to review their appearances (because of the selection they will be highlighted in the list).

Hope that helps.

Re: Shaded sides in 3D cut plane

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:54:23 GMT

Thanks for the help. It turns out that vectorial hatch can only be displayed on uncut surfaces in section views (and elevation). I guess I just have to settle for the plain colored surface .