Brand new to Rhino so apologies if the answer to this is right under my nose. My initial push into the program hasn’t been able to achieve the creation of a “hidden line” style similar to AutoCAD’s (or Revit’s) visual style.
Is this possible in Rhino?
Thanks!
Hello - what is that style?
-Pascal
Hi Pascal and thanks for getting back so quick. It would look something like this:
Maybe also with shadows and some shading eventually. But for now I’m just trying to see if I can get hidden linework to appear like this.
Hello - so, in a ‘live’ viewport, you can only get what the ‘Technical’ display modes give you (Technical, Pen, Artistic modes are based on the Technical pipeline and do ‘hidden line’ display) but you do not get to set the line type. For a 2d drawing done via Make2D (i.e. results are actual curves in the document) you can use any line types that Rhino is capable of.
Dunno if that helps…
-Pascal
It definitely helps! Thanks Pascal.
Hi, is it possible, or would it be possible in the future to be able to change the length/stile (dashed, dashed-dot) of the hidden lines in the visualisation (now only the thickness is available)? That would be really helpful, removing the need to do make 2d when different views may be quickly needed.
Hi -
We have that feature request on our wish list as item RH-28537.
Thanks,
-wim
Are we closer to getting this feature?
Hej -
Not in the viewports, no. In Rhino 8, when printing to vector PDF, the hidden lines in the technical display modes now use the “Hidden” linetype, which can be configured as you want.
-wim
How is that linetype controlled? I don’t see a setting.
I assumed that “this” in that sentence referred to:
You can change the segments of a linetype in the linetypes panel:
-wim
ok. Very sneaky since you can only see it when actually printing. It is working now, thank you.
To this request for line styles I would also like to add the Insulation Line (Insulation Batting) , also similar to Autocad.
