You know what? This is what a perfect tutorial looks like. Straight to the point, the video is as short as it can be, no unnecessary words, no fat. Just a good title that sums up the problem and a demonstration of the solution. This is an ideal video.
No, it doesn't. It is purely a tool to help with modelling. Mind you, if you have enough vertices you can do something similar by just doing a box select in edit mode with x-ray turned on, inverting the selection and the separating the selected vertices to a new object or just deleting them. Would be a bit painful with multiple objects I would imagine.
Thats not unfortunate, thats by design. It's a modeling functionality like x ray mode, like wireframe mode etc. If you want an x ray cutout render, you can use the boolean modifier to make a slice. It's more robust, gives you more control etc.
That's odd. I just tried it and I got the same result as you. I restarted Blender twice and it works again :/ The correct sequence is ALT-B. A big cross appears. Move the mouse to position the center of the cross to the top left of the part you want to hide. Left click and drag should create a box which you drag over the model and when you release the left mouse button the part covered by that box should disappear leaving you with a cross section. ALT-B to get it back.
@@halfajohn3233 You have to drag the box so that half of your model is in it and the rest of it isn't. Or, imagine the box as a thick line that must go completely through your model. If the whole model is in the box then it will disappear and if none of the model is in it nothing will happen.
I just checked on 3.2.2 and it does work. You do need to make sure that you hit ALT-B and then drag the mouse so that a dashed line box is drawn that goes through your model. If you don't do that, your model disappears :)
@@notverygoodguy I discovered the problem, and perhaps your video stated it and I missed it: you can't have any objects selected prior to Alt-B. Thanks much for checking...
You know what? This is what a perfect tutorial looks like. Straight to the point, the video is as short as it can be, no unnecessary words, no fat. Just a good title that sums up the problem and a demonstration of the solution. This is an ideal video.
Thank you for the kind words!
@@notverygoodguy I don't lie, boss.
This is a life-changer if I need to quickly see the plan view of a building I'm (trying) to model. THANK YOU :)
Great to hear it was helpful! Thanks.
10 seconds best video ever ! Thanks !
Ha ha! Thanks
Thanks, can I invert the selection, or can I isolate part of my model with ALT+B then invert it to show the other part?
Sadly not that I am aware of. It's quite basic.
@@notverygoodguy alright thanks for replying.
A quick question, how can I keep the section I draw after exiting with alt-B?
Sadly you can't. You can instead use the bisect tool to cut your model in half or a boolean difference with another object.
@@notverygoodguy understood. Thank you!
Nice idea. Unfortunately doesn’t stay that way in rendered mode
No, it doesn't. It is purely a tool to help with modelling. Mind you, if you have enough vertices you can do something similar by just doing a box select in edit mode with x-ray turned on, inverting the selection and the separating the selected vertices to a new object or just deleting them. Would be a bit painful with multiple objects I would imagine.
Thats not unfortunate, thats by design. It's a modeling functionality like x ray mode, like wireframe mode etc. If you want an x ray cutout render, you can use the boolean modifier to make a slice. It's more robust, gives you more control etc.
Did this by mistake. thnaks
How do you turn this off afterwards?
ALT B again.
bro only watched 5 sec of a 10 sec tutorial
u helped A LOT thank u
Great to hear and thanks for the feedback.
Thank you
And thank you for the feedback!
superb!
Thanks for the feedback :)
the cross appears but when i click/drag nothing happens, am i missing sth?
That's odd. I just tried it and I got the same result as you. I restarted Blender twice and it works again :/ The correct sequence is ALT-B. A big cross appears. Move the mouse to position the center of the cross to the top left of the part you want to hide. Left click and drag should create a box which you drag over the model and when you release the left mouse button the part covered by that box should disappear leaving you with a cross section. ALT-B to get it back.
@@notverygoodguyyes strange, now the box does appear when I click but either nothing happens, or the whole model disappears
@@halfajohn3233 You have to drag the box so that half of your model is in it and the rest of it isn't. Or, imagine the box as a thick line that must go completely through your model. If the whole model is in the box then it will disappear and if none of the model is in it nothing will happen.
Why can't all tutorial videos be like this?
I wish I could make all of them this short. Makes editing much easier :)
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Helpful
Thanks!
it s not the same thing. that is a boolean
It isn't. Try it.
Entire model disappears...
Blender 3.2.2
I just checked on 3.2.2 and it does work. You do need to make sure that you hit ALT-B and then drag the mouse so that a dashed line box is drawn that goes through your model. If you don't do that, your model disappears :)
@@notverygoodguy I discovered the problem, and perhaps your video stated it and I missed it: you can't have any objects selected prior to Alt-B.
Thanks much for checking...