Rhino 8 clipping section potential bug

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Hi. Just took a clipping section and clipping plane, and both produced a jumbled mess of lines.

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This is the normal building without clipping applied
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this is the clipping section
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and this is the clipping plane
Never seen something like this. Has anyone had a similar result?

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Hi Vaughn -

Please run the Rhino SystemInfo command and copy-paste the result here.
-wim

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Rhino 8 SR0 2023-10-31 (Rhino 8, 8.0.23304.09001, Git hash:master @ 20e15cf9bd66e6676f849f22e485cb3e82a8beac)
License type: Evaluation, build 2023-10-31
License details: Cloud Zoo
Expires on: 2024-02-04

Windows 11 (10.0.22621 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 64Gb)
.NET 7.0.0

Computer platform: DESKTOP

Standard graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: Intel(R) UHD Graphics (Intel) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 9-2-2022 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 - Build 31.0.101.3616
> Integrated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #0

Secondary graphics devices.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (NVidia) Memory: 24GB, Driver date: 11-9-2023 (M-D-Y).
> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- There are no monitors attached to this device!

ATTENTION:
Desktop is using the slower, less reliable integrated graphics device and probably needs a configuration change.

There is only one monitor detected, but it’s connected to the slower, integrated graphics video port.

  • Recommended: Unplug the monitor and plug it into one of the video ports on this device:
    [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090]
  • Any hardware configuration or cabling changes you make will require that you restart Rhino.

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)

Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High

Vendor Name: Intel
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 - Build 31.0.101.3616
Driver Date: 9-2-2022
Driver Version: 31.0.101.3616
Maximum Texture size: 16384 x 16384
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 16384 x 16384
Total Video Memory: 1 GB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 8.0.23304.9001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 8.0.23304.9001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Legacy Rhino Render”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 8.0.23304.9001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 8.0.23304.9001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 8.0.23304.9001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCode\RhinoCodePlugin.rhp “RhinoCodePlugin” 8.0.23304.9001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 8.0.23304.9001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”

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Hi Vaughn -

Did you read that part? You’ve paid for a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 but are not using it.
-wim

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Hi Wim.
I did read that, just switched the display port, clipping plane seems to be working fine now. Thanks for your help.

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