I am very happy Rhino got functionality for clipping and creating drawings, but the experience with them is not that good as with most of other tools. Here are some problems that i encountered:
Drawings are created in reversed order by some reason. If you have multiple sections per Object the list of sections will be Object_02, Object_01, Object_00 instead of alphabetical order/or order of creation. So I had to rearrange all of them manually
While drawings are created it is too late to change something like use Text instead of tag as it is impossible to change that for selected/all drawings at once - only one by one and then all the drawings use the same insert point and got overplayed by some reason.
Not possible to select the whole drawing and move it.
Changing name of a section and running _UpdateClippingDrawings All does not update names of drawings
After creating about 100 sections the tree of layers becomes huge and it takes time display it when I click on a layer in status bar. + it is not well structured - it is not possible to set a common parent layer that will be collapsed ant thus maintain the layer structure used in the company.
If i set option to show background then it also shows the geometry behind section (where nothing should be visible except hatch)
I didnât find a list with section styles if it exists. So how to use one style for all objects or chose when needed specific style for some layers or objects?
Named Views are sorted just by creation time, not possible to sort alphabetically or group in âfoldersâ or use search - no chance to fine the one that you need if you have a hundred of them.
UPD: I was wrong, it is possible to sort views with Right click on a named view
Not possible to go from section annotation to the plan view of it (saved view) by double clicking it or in any other way and to the created drawing from this section.
There has been a recent fix to help see the name of the section when run ClippingDrawings command (to create dynamic drawing) to help with the placement, here⊠There is also another suggestion hereâŠ
For Nested ClippingDrawings command, we have a report to help improve and order by name hereâŠ
You can use EditClippingDrawings command and change PlacementPoint. I can see how this is not as intuitive.
How do you change a name of a section? You can change the name of the clippingplane (select, then change object name). you can then run UpdateClipppingSections to populate the change.
This behavior has also been pain in my ass for a educational drawing i made recently. So much manual work to sort the lines. It would be nice to ahve an option to deactive or activate and see those lines in a seperate layer!
Sometimes you need those lines. But with diffenrent style then the rest.
@rajaa If you want more detailed feedback just let me know, as soon as you have time and an open ear for it;)
couldnât work with section drawing professional yet but itâs getting closer.
In Revit you can double-click section symbol (clipping section/clipping plane object) and this opens window with this section. It would be very helpful to be able to go from a clipping section/clipping plane object to the section drawing itself if it was created (nay be by clicking a button in a sidebar?)
Another useful function could be to set CPlane to the section plane and view plane top (I know it is possible to do it manually)
Yes, the thing to keep in mind is that it might be in different plane. And preferably in a layout (it feels so necessary to be able to place ClippingDrawing in layout)
Yes, saving NamedView/Plane and restoring it has the same result but imagine when there are hundreds of sections - it is too difficult to find it in the list, while you already might have easy access to the ClippingPlane.
SetCPlaneToObject does not align the cplane with clipping plane, but only sets Origin to its center.
To explain in other words:
letâs say we have an oblect and a clipping plane
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Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\V-Ray\V-Ray for Rhinoceros\V7\VRayForRhino.rhp âV-Ray for Rhinoâ
C:\Users\simon\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\8.0\NVIDIADenoiser\0.4.3\NVIDIADenoiser.Windows.rhp âNVIDIADenoiser.Windowsâ 0.4.3.0
C:\Users\simon\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\8.0\Bullant\23.10.24.0\bullant.rhp âbullantâ 23.10.24.0
C:\Users\simon\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\8.0\ggRhinoIFC\24.7.27.8\ggRhinoIFC.rhp âggRhinoIFCâ 24.7.27.8
Thank you, @rajaa. May I ask if there is any update on this? This would make the difference for my and my team to be able to use clipping drawings on two current architectural projects. Thank you!
Dear @rajaa, I wanted to kindly follow up to see if you had a chance to review this. Weâre currently in the middle of an architectural project, and resolving this would be incredibly helpful for us.
Simon
