This way the lighting in the model is not altered which is beneficial for illumination design. It allows you to take a “look inside” while geometry is still contributing to reflections and light bounces. With Thea for SketchUp you are able to render Sections, without any modification of your model. High quality external Thea models can be inserted as empty wireframe boxes inside SketchUp viewport and, in the rendered image, be translated into highly detailed originals, allowing easy population of impressively looking trees, grass, cars and more. Thea for SketchUp provides a solution that overcomes limitations in terms of complexity of the final model. Additionally, with the use of Thea Content Browser you can have access to an increasing variety of ready-to-use high quality Thea materials and apply them easily to your models. Thea for SketchUp lets you benefit from the powerful Thea Material Editor which supports physically-based materials and layering, lighting emittance, displacement and alpha mapping. With the use of Interactive Region Rendering a desired part of SketchUp view can be selected for focusing render effort. Thea for SketchUp interactive render mode allows you to preview the composition, materials and lights in your scene interactively, either inside the dedicated Thea window or directly inside SketchUp view in Overlay or Blending mode.
Interactive Viewport Rendering witht Overlay.