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Any chance we can have this too?
http://www.indigorenderer.com/forum/vie ... 58#p116458

Maxwell currently supports z-clipping (see Scene Manager > Camera > Z-Clip Planes, make sure Show Advanced View is enabled in the page's toolbar), but not clipping by arbitrary boundaries, if that is what you are referring to.

No, not really. If you look at the Indigo forum basically you can right click a section plane in SU and tell the engine to cut the model there and hide the rest. Its like using the Zorro2 script without actually cutting your model.

I'll take a look and see if we can do that too.

This would be fantastic!!! The z-clip option is more time consuming because, AFAIK, there is no way to know the distance of the camera in sketchup to be able to input correct values into the Z-clip parameters.

You don't really need to know the distance, because you can use the Pick DOF, Z-Clip, or Z-Buffer tool (it is in the plugin's menu & toolbar) to set those things interactively. As you use it, it reports the distance of the points you are picking in SketchUp's Measurements readout.

I've messed around with it, but it doesn't seem easy, at least for me, to use as would the section plane. Since choosing the z-clip near/far snaps to sketchup points I find it hard to choose where I'd like. Not complaining, and maybe I'm not doing it correctly.

Any progress ?!

Not yet -- to be done correctly, this requires new functionality in Maxwell itself.

I would check out the Zorro plugin. We've been using it recently, its pretty awesome. The only caveat is that it requires a few extras steps (make a copy of the SU file, because cuts are permanent). You can also cut by the section plane OR draw your cuts in freehand 3D

http://www.alexhogrefe.com/blog/2012/1/ ... rro-2.html

Works great!