Hi Luca, We will do the updates for the NotilusClipper Rhino 8 version and inform you.
good to know!
thanks
Hello, today i tested section tools. I find it too limited for real work due to the fact that it produces only section linework and not section-view with also linework within the scope of clipping plane depth definition. Everything would be much more powerful that way. Was this the intent to disregard everything that is visible beyond clipping plane? With depth parameter set to 0 only section should be the output otherwise it is not as expected according to general logic.
@ivan.galik What command are you referring to? ClippingDrawings?
If so, there is the “Background” option to also extract visible/hidden geometry. Is that what you are after?
I overlooked add background option. It is what i am talking about BUT i just tested that it does not react to clipping plane depth definition. Now i am thinking if it is a good or bad thing since you have control over it via clipped objects selection. Maybe it should react to depth and generate linework like if it all objects selected were trimmed beyond that depth. What do you think?
@ivan.galik I can see a case for using the clipping plane depth, but depth utility is perhaps most useful for display, rather than for extracting drawings. Also, as you pointed out, with Selective Clipping, there is good control over what to include in the drawings.
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I just tested this quickly. Curves must definitely generate points in section. I believe its just been omitted.
Hi @luca4, We have published the Rhino8 WIP version of the NotilusClipper Please try and let us know if everything works! Notilus Clipper | Food4Rhino
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I am much wiser today than yesterday and i am more confident to say that depth should be considered even for section drawing. Imagine a cross section of a road or railway with background. Now imagine that the stretch of a winding road is few kilometers. What will you see in the background? Huge amount of linework which will just mess your drawing rendering it unusable. With depth you can easily control that i want to loook only 5m behin the section for instance.
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There is a 3rd option. Projection of the World 0 to the section plane for orthogonal sections.
Hi @rajaa
everything clear with my reply about “origin” option Grip?
I did not get any feedback about this.
I think this to be a rather important feature to be added for a consistent use of sections in a drafting workflow.
Thank you!
I’ll experiment with it next week and see if we can come up with an option that is more consistent. Thanks for elaborating.
I added this request to the pile here….
Note that this is a Make2D feature because extracting background drawings use the same base code.
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Could it also be considered that the level of detail visualization in the section could be defined?
How do you change the model space scale of the clipping plane label text in a detail view?
For example, when I select a text object within a detail I can easily find the model space scale field.
This option is either not available or not where it should be when you follow the same logic. Am I missing something?
Edit: I actually meant to change the text size but the point still stands. both options should be available in properties.
@nperillo.np Can you please share your model, and what version of Rhino are you using?
I’m using the most recent Rhino 8 Beta downloaded yesterday (8.0.23255.13163, 2023-09-12)
Section Drafting Test.3dm (132.0 KB)
It would also be very useful to have model space scaling for the hatch paterns.
The below images are using the same section style settings but as you can see this scaling setting in the model space is not useful.
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Hi,
I find this hardly fixed. I am not going to investigate further but it seems like depth is ommited for meshes at least. Please test supposed fixes properly before announcing them 
clipping drawing:
there is whole long stretch of road in the background even though depth is set to be 5meters only
Hi Nick -
We have it on our list to make clipping section labels and arrows be defined by an annotation style → RH-75230 Add Clipping Arrows and Text to the Annotation Style
For the time being, you are probably better off using dots - or manually adding annotation text.
That is already available. The model space hatch scale also applies to section hatches:
-wim
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