Clipping plane - Snapping to the clipping plane edge

afp · February 12, 2019, 4:54am

Thank you Mark. I’ll try that. I just wish Rhino would recognize the clipping plane and allow you to snap to the endpoints. It would be very useful. Perhaps a Rhino 7 upgrade? Any thoughts from Rhino developers?

pascal · February 12, 2019, 5:00am

Hello - a trick to get those curves might be:

! _Intersect _InfinitePlane

Selct the clipping plane, then all the other objects.

_Pascal

afp · February 12, 2019, 5:14am

It worked without having to explode the curves! Thank you Mark and Pascal.

Bogdan_Chipara · March 20, 2019, 2:02pm

It would be very useful to be able to snap on the clipping plane edges directly, without any workarounds.

wim · March 20, 2019, 2:06pm

Hi - I have added your wish to the open item - RH-39927

Bogdan_Chipara · March 20, 2019, 2:32pm

Thank you @wim
To make it even more useful would be good to add Clipping Plane Edges in the Osnap tab among End, Near, Point, Mid etc.

wim · March 20, 2019, 2:36pm

Hi - I’m not sure about that. I would think that it should work with the regular snaps. If not, you would need a special snap for Clipping Plane Section > Mid, one for Clipping Plane Section > End, etc…

Bogdan_Chipara · March 20, 2019, 2:46pm

Yes, You’re right.

I was thinking about the situation where there’s, let’s say, a top view and a clipping plane and I would like to snap on some clipping plane edges to measure. So I don’t want to accidentally snap on some endpoint below the clipping plane edge. But I guess this will be avoided anyway because of the Snap to occluded objects - off.

pascal · March 20, 2019, 2:47pm

Hello - In case it helps, End and Mid & Near work on clipping plane edges now.

-Pascal

Bogdan_Chipara · March 20, 2019, 2:53pm

@pascal, Since SR14? I have 13 and they don’t.

pascal · March 20, 2019, 2:58pm

True, I am using an in-house latest build… I’ll try the public SR in a bit. But I am not aware of any changes in that area…

-Pascal

Bogdan_Chipara · March 20, 2019, 2:58pm

Great, let me know if they work or not. Thanks!

pascal · March 20, 2019, 3:08pm

@Bogdan_Chipara - End, Near and Mid osnaps all work here in SR13…

-Pascal

Bogdan_Chipara · March 20, 2019, 3:22pm

They don’t work here…

Bogdan_Chipara · March 20, 2019, 3:28pm

@pascal we are talking about different things. I’m talking about snapping on these edges

molestina · October 8, 2021, 9:09am

Any updates on this in Rhino 7? Would be a very useful addition.

wim · October 8, 2021, 12:56pm

Hi -

This is currently being worked on for Rhino 8.
This thread is mentioned in RH-39927 and will be notified when the feature is available for testing in a WIP.
Thanks,
-wim

brian · November 24, 2021, 6:03am

RH-39927 is fixed in the latest WIP

rolf · December 14, 2021, 12:28pm

Great! I guess this feature won’t be retroactively implemented in Rhino 7, will it?
For the time being, we at Sustainer Homes developed a hatching script that adds hatches (based on the layer) and outline curves on top of all clipped objects to use the Osnap functionalities properly when using a clipping plane. I think both features will definitely make Rhino a more architecture-friendly software. Just putting the sales incentive out there haha.

In any case, looking forward to this great new feature!

Rolf

wim · December 14, 2021, 2:31pm

Dag Rolf -

That’s correct, these are new features of Rhino 8.
-wim