Display modes that respects Section Attribute Pattern color?

VisualARQ
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Hello!
Is the VA-native ‘Hidden’ display mode the only one that can display sectioned objects with the color/style that was set in VA section attributes?

I’d like to use this color…
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… here:
Rhino Options > View >Display Modes > … > Objects > Clipping Planes
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Btw. it s*cks that you reduced the features of your ‘Hidden’ mode. E.g. objects cannot display their material color anymore. I used this in the past, and it was nice.

Thanks!

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Hi @Eugen,

There are other display modes which display this pattern color: Wireframe, Shaded, Rendered, Ghosted, X-Ray and Artic.

Which display mode do you want to use with that color in the section?

How did you do it in the past? I’ll try to reproduce it to check what has changed.

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Hello Alfonso!

  1. You are right - Shaded mode etc. indeed render the clipping color when the display mode’s clipping plane fill color is set to ‘viewport’.
    I stumbled over a custom display mode that was somehow broken and only displayed black in the section. Dunno why.

  2. I used your Hidden mode for a style like this:
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But it’s not possible anymore to set the object color to ‘Material’.
I swear this used to be possible. Then some versions ago, you ditched this feature.
Could we have it back, please?
Thanks!

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Hi @Eugen,

But it’s not possible anymore to set the object color to ‘Material’.

Hidden display mode is a “non-shaded” display mode. Rhino changed some versions ago and removed “shaded” attributes from the display mode page. IMHO, it makes sense.

But I guess you can achieve the same using the “Conceptual” or “Realistic” display modes, which are like the “Hidden”, showing silhouette edges, with shaded parts visible.

Or, maybe, I’m not understanding what you want. If that’s the case, please share some screenshots of what you want.

Enric

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I want to point out that we haven’t changed of “Hidden” display mode works. “Hidden” display mode should display only edges (like “Technical” display mode). Trying to enable shading in “Hidden” display mode has never been officially supported.

Enric

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Thanks, Enric!

I see… ‘Hidden’ mode used to have shading properties, which I used to colorize some parts, as shown in the screenshot above.
But yes, I guess I can achieve the same thing with another display mode. Vector output would be nice, though.

By the way:
Is there any display mode with vector output that can export the silhouettes of surfaces as a colored boundary (material color), similar to hatches?
Anything planned?

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I usually make a layout with two superimposed viewports to achieve this. The top one has ‘hidden’ display mode to get vector output. The other one is a custom display mode that has lights, shadows, curves, edges, silhouettes and creases turned off, to get a simple flat colored surfaces output.

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Thanks, that’s something I used myself once.
What I mean is getting filled vector ‘shapes’ from surfaces that can be tweaked in some 2d program later.
Archicad has a pretty strong vector engine that can do this, e.g.