Hello @rajaa
I have new three “suggestions / questions / issues” for improvement regarding current workflows:
1. Functionality of Sections in the “Background” Layer - I am a bit confused about how sections work within the “Background” layer. Currently, no curves are being saved to the “Visible” sub-layer; instead, everything is being placed into “Visible not sectioned.”
Looking at Image 1, the clipping planes “Front” and “Top” (which do not actually cut through the geometry) should logically generate lines in the “Visible not sectioned” layer. However, all other actual sections should ideally generate lines in the “Background - Visible” layer. Is this the intended behavior, or am I missing a setting?
2. Surface-aligned Hatching for Furniture Design (Grain Direction) This is more of a technical challenge. When modeling furniture, we use specific hatch patterns that must remain perpendicular to the surface of the board material (e.g., chipboard, plywood – see Image 2).
The issue arises when I create sections of a single board from two different view angles: the hatch orientation does not align correctly with the material’s orientation in both views. Is there any existing way to lock hatch orientation to the object’s local coordinate system or the board’s surface? I suspect this might be difficult to implement, but it would be a greate for technical documentation in woodworking.
3. Editing Section Blocks for Custom Hatching One last thing — how can I enter a block created by the Section tool, for example, to manually add or edit hatches? (See the last image).
The hatch for the curved plywood part should look like the one in the reference, but I am unable to use the boundary curves to manually create the pattern without exploding the block first. When I double-click the block, it only opens the Section update dialog/table.
