Most drafters, regardless of which software they are using, will be used to creating drawings of an object with a cut line through the middle. A door for example- instead of showing the entire door in the layout you would show both jambs and then a portion of the door slab with a cut-line indicator through the slab signifying that you are showing an arbitrary amount of the slab and not the whole thing…saves a lot of real estate on the page. Would be great to see Rhino details have the ability to split an object so you can view two sides of it at once with a cutline indicator in the middle. I find this hard to describe in words so I attached a pic.
I can achieve this in rhino by creating two separate details, lining them up but its pretty tedious when you have to do like 30 of them in a drawing set. And its not easy to alter.
hi @brady1 this type of drawing I believe is called a break line drawing. This might be scriptable. Not sure if you are aware but if you edit a drawing, panning and holding shift allows to pan orthogonally.
That worked! Weird. Thanks for this tip, will help a lot. As far as the feature request itself, you think this is something that could be scripted on my own?
It should not be too hard to do I think, basically how I imagine it, is that you draw out a detail, then a rectangle of the section you want to trim out, and use that to calculate the transforms. I’ve made some scripts for layouts, which should give you a few ideas how to deal with detail views.
In case you want to get more info on the tools in that link, see this page
