After watching this video: https://youtu.be/6RH6ewUmX7A I’ve made a Clipping Box macro for Rhino. It creates 6 clipping planes in a box configuration, oriented as the active CPlane and cornered in its origin, and groups them together. You can later treat it as a box (move, scale rotate with Gumbal…

@ale2x72 In Rhino 8, there is the new depth property of clipping planes, so you will need 3 clipping planes (instead of 6) to create the box.

Cool! Does Depth scale if the Clipping plane is scaled in its perpendicular direction? Sorry about the question, I do not have Rhino 8 handy at the moment to test it out myself… One of the nice things about the clipping box using 2 opposite-facing planes is the possibility to scale it non-uniformly…

No it doesn’t scale, so yes if you like to do that, then use 6 clipping planes. BTW, if you are running V7, you can download and use the Rhino WIP (Rhino 8).

Thank you! Oh, yes, I have Rhino 8 WIP installed, I meant I wasn’t able to access it just right at the moment of writing my previous reply.

Hi Alessio. I like it. It’s similar to one I wrote: '_Cplane PAUSE setredrawoff clippingplane p -.5,-.5,10 .5,-.5,10 -.5,.5,10 sellast group ENTER setgroupname cb clippingplane p .5,-.5,-10 -.5,-.5,-10 .5,.5,-10 sellast group enter setgroupname cb clippingplane p -10,-.5,-.5 -10,-.5,.5 -10,.5,-.5 …

Clipping Box Macro

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