Clipping plane behavior wish

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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it seems inconvenient to have to find the layer the flipping plane is on, select it and then control it. The clipping plane feels like a higher level object, almost like the grid or gumball. It would be nice to always have control over it easily at hand.

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Hi Aaron,

Can you explain more about this request? Iā€™m missing something I think as I can select a clipping plane directly irregardless of the layer itā€™s on. Are you maybe using the SectionTools plugin which puts section curves on a layer?

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Not Aaron, of course, but my workflow with clipping planes is that I create them on a layer called ā€œclipping planesā€ and then turn off that layer. Itā€™s the ā€˜higher levelā€™ type of object that I do not want to appear in the rest of my workflow (where I isolate objects Iā€™m working on by hiding / freezing other etc). So when I want to do something with the clipping plane, I have to find the layer, turn it on, select the plane, control it, and turn the layer back off.

I suppose I could write a script for that, now that I actually think of the workflow but, to me, itā€™s something like the camera. I can turn on the camera if I want to but since that is a ā€˜higher levelā€™ type of object, it has its own commands to deal with that.

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Thanks for that Mr.Wimā€¦ I think to summarize I donā€™t believe the clipping plane should be on a layer at allā€¦ to function more like cameras is a good model.

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Thanks for the feedback guys. Iā€™ll add this thread to the clipping plane discussions for Rhino 6.