Would be a a great quality of life feature if I could quickly toggle a clipping plane between on/off in the respective world view without having to use the checkbox in the properties panel. Maybe there is a little button attached to the gumball when the clipping plane is selected or if you double click a clipping plane it will toggle it on/off? Would be nice
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I was about to make this same request/ wish. I would guess that the way Rhino handles clipping planes means that this would not be a very straightforward addition, but a checkbox or two, a button or two, or a floating context menu that appears once a clipping plane is selected would be nice. I do always have my properties panel open, and I have an enable/ disable clipping plane in current viewport button on my toolbar, but less mouse travel is quicker.
One checkbox or button could be enable/ disable clipping plane in current viewport.
Two checkboxes or buttons could be the above plus a second for all viewports.
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I apologize; I may not have been adequately clear. I do have a toolbar button set up just like that that I currently use. My dream would be to have something pop up near the clipping plane when it is selected similarly to the way the gumball works only with different actions.
Hi @brady1
You can get the clipping plane to toggle on off but you have to use a macro and name the clipping plane first. Assign the macros below to a left and right mouse button. You can copy and paste the scripts below make sure to name your clipping plane first.
This is on left mouse button…
_-Selname “clippingPlane1”
_-EnableClippingPlane
_-selnone
This is on right mouse button…
_-Selname “clippingPlane1”
_-DisableClippingPlane
_-selnone
RM
It is available in the properties panel, and I always have that panel open. My dream would just simplify the process. Two seconds to move the cursor to a button is not something to complain about, but after moving and clicking on a thousand buttons over the course of a day I find my minds processing speed slows down and catch myself thinking longer about where I am navigating to and which button I am selecting. 99.99% of the time I select a clipping plane I am either moving by the gumball, copying by the gumball, enabling, or disabling. This would simply allow the action to happen where the mouse already is without bouncing around the screen. I realize it is likely too small of an improvement to justify the time to implement, but I had thought of it a couple of times, then a coworker happened to comment about it, and I have found a couple posts on here about it, so I felt it was at least worth giving my vote in support of it.
You could create an alias or keyboard shortcut?
Yes, I thought about an alias as well. Generally enabling or disabling a clipping plane is part of adjusting the view so typically I would have one hand on the mouse and the other on the 3d mouse when enabling/ disabling clipping planes. The more I type about this the more petty the request feels. It is what it is though and I do believe this feature would improve the flow of modeling. I think that most would agree that the more intuitive a system feels the nicer it is to use.
I have a 3D connexion mouse with a radial menu and buttons. This could be an option. Otherwise the mmb popup menu