Differentiation of hatching in sections

The problem that this feature will solve:

Sections don’t readily differentiate parts at the cut plane.

Brief description of the outcomes that you expect from this feature:

Back when I was a lad, a section was used to show the inner workings of things and they depended on the outlines of the sectioned parts being drawn and the hatching being different for each neighboring part. In Shapr3D, the cut outlines of parts are not drawn and the same hatch and color is used across the whole cut plane:


There are around 12 bodies being sliced in this image… but you wouldn’t know that by looking.

What can’t you achieve without this feature?
I can’t see the parts and how they interact in my mechanisms and detailed assemblies which are often contained in external housing type bodies. Making things partially transparent only partially assists. This issue is a problem that slows down design.

Proposed Solution*
Draw the sliced outlines and patchwork the hatch background colour between the tan, a pink, a blue, and a green and don’t color neighboring parts the same. That should give enough combinations to always make neighboring parts differentiable in the section.

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