3D Section Box

[Anonymous]

I would like to have a 3D-Section-Box like you have in Revit. It would be a great advantage while working on bigger and more complex Scenes.

[Anonymous]

This is essential functionality that I can't live without in Revit. If an adjustable section box is too complicated for some reason, please give us at least section cut planes in X Y and Z for modeling, but since this has such a great implementation in Revit one would hope it could be done in a similar fashion in Max. Tremendous time saver. 

[michael_spaw]

Thanks for the idea.

-Michael

Michael Spaw

3ds Max, Product Owner/Designer

Media and Entertainment Division

[Anonymous]

Any news on this? This would be absolutely awesome!

Especially as an architect working on massive models. Applying a section modifier is not feasible or possible.

It would be good if you could render with the model clipped by the section box too.

[Kranos_Orphydian]

that would be bloody awesome but I dont have any high hopes.

[nicinus]

+1

The problem with a request like this is that few 3ds Max users are familiar with Revit, so it is probably hard to visualize how useful this actual is in your daily workflow.

[chopYJ29A]

+100 for this idea. In complex scenes when you have to sort out some tiny details, this would be a million times faster than hiding, unhiding, isolating etc. 

[nicinus]

One of the areas it would be perhaps the most useful is when linking in a Revit model. As the geometry is linked it is not easy to separate the model into small parts and hide portions via layers, etc. A section box in 3ds Max would make it much easier to work on parts of the model.

[Kranos_Orphydian]

now with the smart extrude behaviour this seems coming from the same area

[Kranos_Orphydian]

how is this different than Using Slice plane modifier with more than one axis?

[nicinus]

Well, for one you can only practically use it on one object.