3d cutting planes box so small?

[Dave Brach]

what's up with the 3d cutting planes dialogue box? I can barely see the model it is so small, let alone place a cut exactly where I want it. How does one zoom in?

[Anonymous]

You can reposition the dialog box and stretch it out which will scale the preview boxes larger.

[Dave Brach]

I see that the boxes can be stretched, but the plan and two sections of the model are still tiny. What am I missing?

[Eduardo Rolon]

FWIW,

In 16 and before I only used the "box" only to define the cutting heights of the model. To define the rest in addition I used the marquee.

The one you probably don't want to hear is that this was fixed in 17 by the introduction of the 3D cutting planes.

http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/videos/archicad/3d-interactions/archicad-17-new-features-3d-cutting...

[Anonymous]

The preview image scales to show everything in your model space. The less objects visible the more focused the preview will be. If you hide that stuff off to the side that should help as well as hiding the mesh/slab you have for the grade.

[Barry Kelly]

I believe it is based on what you have showing in 3D when you open the dialgue box.
Each view will scale to be the same as the one that shows plan view.
So the less you can show in the plan view then the bigger all the views will be.
You can place a marquee but that will still zoom to the extent of whatever the marquee cuts trough.
So you are better off selecting in plan and then showing in 3D to get just what you want.

Unfortunately there is no zoom in or out - just making the dialogue box larger.

I think this is one of the reasons GS moved away from this in version 17 where you now have adjustable cutting planes (and lots of them - not just 3) in the actual 3D window.

Barry.

[Dave Brach]

thanks for the comments!