Section Plane
The Iray Section Plane is a helper object for placing section cuts through an entire max scene. This creates an infinite planar cut in the Iray rendering, but is shown as a simple rectangular grid in the viewport with arbitrary size and spacing. Multiple Section Planes can be combined to cut the scene in multiple places.
adding a section plane
Create Panel ➤ Helper ➤ Iray+ ➤ Section Plane
Parameters
Properties:
- On: Toggles the section cut in the rendered image. Disable this to show the full model.
- Clip Light: When enabled, the model hidden by the section cut is invisible to camera, but still is affected the lighting in the scene. Use this to see inside a model while preserving the lighting of the original model. When disabled, the cut mesh is completely hidden by the section and does not affect light in the scene.
- Flip Direction: When enabled, this reverses which side of the Section Plane is hidden in the rendering.
Grid:
- Length: Sets the length of the helper shown in the viewport
- Width: Sets the width of the helper shown in the viewport
- Spacing: Sets the size of the grid shown within the helper in the viewport
Display:
- XY Plane/YZ Plane/ZX Plane: Sets the initial orientation of the section cut.
✱ Note: Standard 3ds Max transforms (move, rotate, scale) and animated transforms are supported.
▲
Page Last Edited:
