Clipping plane through surface or polysurface

Rhino
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Hi

I have been wishing for a long time to get a clipping plane mode made through definition of a cutting surface or polisrf.

I dont know what it takes and i am not skilled enough to script it but i think this could be a very powerful tool.

to my knowledge this sort of tool is not yet available in rhino but i wonder if it would be possible to add it ?

thanks in advance.

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Hi Filippo -

We have that feature request on the list as RH-3952 Clipping Objects
I’ve added this thread to that issue.
-wim

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thanks for your answer Wim , i am looking forward to the day when this feature will be available.

greetings

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Here is an alias I wrote to create a clipping ‘box’. I assigned it to a ‘CB’ alias. It creates 6 clipping planes as a group around the point you pick. It can be enlarged or shrunk on any axis with the gumball grips. Yes, the script can be copied into an alias even as large as it is.

'_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 sellast group enter setgroupname cb clippingplane p 10,-.5,.5 10,-.5,-.5 10,.5,.5 sellast group enter setgroupname cb clippingplane p .5,-10,.5 -.5,-10,.5 .5,-10,-.5 sellast group enter setgroupname cb clippingplane p -.5,10,.5 .5,10,.5 -.5,10,-.5 sellast group enter setgroupname cb selnone setredrawon

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very quick and useful , many thanks

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