Hi everyone,
I'm a student approaching for my very first time to autocad 2017. I have a house with some blocks inside (like the sofa, the table or the kitchen).
My problem is: when I create a section plane, he cuts all the walls and the floor as he should, but it keeps the blocks visible... I attach an image of the problem.
Thanks in advance
Lorenzo
P.S. I can't simply hide them because I may need to hide only the half of an object.
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Hi,
>> when I create a section plane, he cuts all the walls and the floor as he should, but it keeps the blocks visible
from the help >>>here<<<:
Section plane objects create sections of 3D solids, surfaces, meshes, and point clouds.
So at the first look it works as designed. However, I tried the command _SECTIONPLANE as well as _SECTIONPLANETOBLOCK as well as _LIVESECTION and all are working well with a block (that block contains a 3D-Solid).
So if you can upload the drawing we can look into the block and see which types of objects are in your block-definitions.
Alternatives - depending on what is needed exactly - can be:
- alfred -
Hi Alfred,
I send you my drawing. Hope that he can be useful.
thanks
Lorenzo
Hi,
I looked first to the window block ==> it contains a subblock and within that 268 objects of type "Polyface Mesh"
I looked then to the table block ==> it contains if 2 objects of type "Polyface Mesh"
(I did not look to other objects then)
The object type "Polyface Mesh" is not supported for command _SECTIONPLANE (as listed above), so you have to convert your block-definitions to hold objects like 3D-solid or geometry types which are supported for that command.
- alfred -
Hi,
>> Ok, so what should I do
You will have to convert or redesign your blocks so they are only containing objects of a type listed under supported objects in the help.
E.g. for your table: select it, then right-click ==> block editor ==> within the block editor either find ways to convert the objects or recreated the geometry of the table.
To convert a Polyface Mesh to a Mesh you can use command _CONVTOMESH.
So open every block-definition in block-editor, convert the Polyface Meshes to Meshes, close block-editor with saving the block, ready.
Just to mention: I had to copy your modelspace content to a new drawing and work in that new dwg as some conversions resulted in invisible objects.
Please find attached a drawing where I converted some blocks 😉
HTH, - alfred -
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