"Create section" tool in blender?

thomes · January 15, 2024, 10:27am

hi,

is there an easy method for making a curve section of an object?
like the knife topology tool, but not cutting the object, but only making the cutting curve…

like in 3dsmax:
“Section is a special type of spline that generates shapes based on a cross-sectional slice through geometry objects.”

https://help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-2D949B51-02F1-4D96-8033-3427729E4FA2

the addon " Section view plane" is cool and should give the possibility to make a curve out of the section.

thanks for help!
thomes

Zebrahead · January 15, 2024, 11:17am

Hi thomes,
you could make yourself such a tool with Geometry Nodes:

thomes · January 15, 2024, 3:14pm

thanks a lot zebrahead,works good, so as this is maybe not the only solution, i will wait for more to learn.

Jakroval · January 17, 2024, 7:07pm

I have tried the same setup, it doesn’t work. Did I do something wrong?

Jakroval · January 17, 2024, 7:08pm

Do you set the geometry node with the torus or the cutting plane?

Matakani · January 17, 2024, 8:19pm

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