Clipping Drawings depth control not working

Hello,

I am trying to create some 2d drawings with clippingplanes.

The behaviour regarding the section depth is not working for me.

Regardless the settings; the drawing being created is only a clipped section drawing without depth, custom depth is not affecting it and neither is when I tick off the “custom depth” mark.

Updating the drawings doesn’t have any effect either.

It is such a useful feature in theory, please help…

Thank you!

EDIT to specify:
I’m on the newest version and using a MacBook with M3 chip.

Hi Luis,

Does this file work for you? Can you provide an example of what i not working for you along with your complete SystemInfo (run systeminfo in the rhino command line)
clippingdrawing.3dm (3.2 MB)

Hi Japhy, thanks for the quick reply.

In your file, I am getting the same behaviour as in the model I was trying - that is:

  • The drawing is only showing the section without depth
  • When moving the clipping plane, the drawing only updates automatically when the placement results in a drawing (no updates for empty drawing)
  • The “Custom depth” tick mark, the custom depth setting and the UpdateClippingDrawings command don’t do anything.

From how I understand it, the settings as I put them in the screenshot should result in the two other blocks being visible in the drawing as well, and not just the one where the clipping plane lies, right?

Here is my SystemInfo:

Rhino 8 SR15 2025-1-19 (Rhino 8, 8.15.25019.13002, Git hash:master @ 74164bdf5469c2f269746857c54b8c44b74c7b24)
License type: Educational, build 2025-01-19
License details: Cloud Zoo

Apple macOS Version 15.3 (Build 24D60) (Physical RAM: 16GB)
Mac Model Identifier: Mac15,12
Language: en
.NET 7.0.0

Metal GPU Family Apple 7
Metal GPU Family Common 3
Metal GPU Family Mac 2
Graphics processors
Apple M3
Color LCD (1470 x 956 @ 60.00Hz)
LM24-E231 (1920 x 1080 @ 120.00Hz)
GPU Vendor: Apple

USB devices
GenesysLogic: USB3.1 Hub
GenesysLogic: USB2.1 Hub

Bluetooth devices
None

Third party kernel extensions
None

Third party plugins
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCore.dylib
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/usr/lib/swift/libswiftIOKit.dylib
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Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
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Thank you!

Hard to say without the file.

When you created the clippingdrawing did you enable Background and Hidden Lines?

Aah these options I completely overlooked. Thank you, that was it.

Maybe it would be nice to add them also in the properties panel for the clipping plane, which is where I was vainly looking to configure it!

Thank you so much!