How To Make Hatch in Section Cut model Automatically on SketchUp

Hatch is a very important thing when we are making a cut on a model. With the Hatch, we can easily know which areas have been cut so that the image will be easier to understand.

In sketchup you can not directly give hatches to the section cut model. its because sketchup does not provide a special tool plugin to provide hatching to the section cut model. to solve this problem, an additional plugin tool called Section Cut Face is required. This plugin can help you to create hatches on section cut model automatically and easily. You can download it here for free.

To create hatches automatically by using this plugin tool, here following steps to do that.

Step 1

First you download and install the Section Cut Face plugin tool on SketchUp.

Step 2

Next you create a Section Plane on the model you will give the cut. You can follow the tutorial how to give Section Cut on the model

Step 3

After that if the model has been given a Section Cut, then right click on the marker pieces and select Add Section Cut Face.

Step 4

Then in the Section Cut Face settings, do the settings as you want like in the picture below.

Step 5

If it is appropriate, click ok and the pieces will be marked with red as in the picture.

Step 6

You can provide hatching by replacing the red color with a picture of the shade that you can download on google. On the material tab, take the sample color  by clicking the Sample plan icon and navigate to the color of the cut area. Next, change the color with the shaded images that you have downloaded.

Step 7

If you do the above steps,  the shading on the model pieces will look like in the picture below.

Well that's a tutorial how to create hatches on Section Cut automatically in SketchUp. hopefully, the tutorial can be useful for you to learn this bombastis 3D software ever.

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