Wonderful! I really think that this is the kind of feature that will pull architects and set designers in to the Rhino world. I would not hold back on advertising this, guys, in your marketing!!
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Hi again,
Is there any word on if the shadows will be fixed in this reflected ceiling plan mode?
I just received a promo email that is showing the same problem, the can lights and the band around the coffers look recessed etc. It really makes this mode useless till its fixed. The drawing would be extremely misleading for construction.
Thanks!
Hey @pascal, do you know if there would be any display mode work around or fix for this? Not sure if its something to do with the normals being flipped or something?
Thanks!
Have you tried Technical Display Mode?
The mode works fine for a line drawing, but any shadows are inverted, same in technical mode
I see your point, thanks for the response
Hi @stevebaer,
Is there SDK access for this projection method? I could have sworn I saw it somewhere in the docs and can’t find it anymore and TestReflectedViewport is no longer a valid command.
Under DefinedViewportProjection I see the following options:
A search for “Parallel Reflected” turns up nothing in Rhino.Common API Docs.
Thanks for your help!
Hi @michaelvollrath All you need to really do is set the view’s Z scale to an inverted value.
Something like this as a basic example.
var active_view = Document.Views.ActiveView.ActiveViewport;
var view_info = new ViewInfo(active_view);
view_info.Viewport.ChangeToParallelProjection(true);
view_info.Viewport.SetViewScale(1.0, 1.0, -1.0);
Set the view scale back to normal when flipping back.
view_info.Viewport.SetViewScale(1.0, 1.0, 1.0);
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Awesome thank you! @Trav I was trying to figure this out with UpVector and CameraTarget and realized it wouldn’t work that way but I had no idea about view scale.
That makes perfect sense and I’ll proceed accordingly.
Cheers!
Is there something missing in this new R8 feature or is it just confusing?
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Hi @bobmcneel,
No it works great from the UI selection in the Viewport Properties.
I just need a way to call it from code directly for a plugin I am working on which includes a minor feature for switching to Reflected Ceiling Plan within an Eto.Forms User Interface.
What @Trav suggested works just fine for my purposes at this time.
It would be nice to have a dedicated “Bottom Reflected” enum exposed in “DefinedViewportProjection” within the SDK but otherwise everything is good.
Thanks for checking in!
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I’m glad that’s working for you. I’ve added the RhinoCommon request in a new ticket here > RH-84231
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Perfect, thanks @Trav !
Hi Bob, yes unfortunately there is an issue with this feature as shown above by @nscross.
The method that is used for the parallel projection is only useful in 2D and without shadows. Once shadows are on, the model appears to be ‘inside out’. With shadows on, Recesses appear to be projecting outwards and vice versa.
This effectively makes this view highly limited in terms of functionality and which display modes can be used. As someone who is always moving between fluidly 2D & 3D (ie why I love Rhino!) this feature cannot be a part of my workflow.
Is it possible to fix this at all?
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RH-84231 is fixed in Rhino 8 Service Release 14
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