Rhino 8 introduces two new clipping features to help view and communicate complex models. Those are selective clipping and clipping depth. Selective Clipping: You can select a subset of objects and layers to be clipped by any given clipping plane. There are two ways to set what to be clipped…

[image] Martin Siegrist: I think it would look nicer if the inside was colored in an averaged color taken from the texture? or, the clipping plane could support having texture mappings assigned it already seems to allow assigning a material, though I don’t see that having any effect yet

Hi @martinsiegrist I filed this as https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-75909 The custom UV texture from the scan won’t be useful for the section but you should be able to override the material.

Thanks Brian, what if the scan texture was just somehow averaged into a single color?

Hi @martinsiegrist I found this workflow that may help for that. Set the object’s section style to by clipping plane and then edit the clipping plane style to use a solid fill with a custom color. You can then use the eyedropper to sample.

Ok @BrianJ I found the problem. I was missing the ‘Use section styles’ checkmark in the rendered display mode settings… [image]

Hi, @rajaa Both Make2D and Clipping Sections are only accepting one Clipping Plane at once. Your video shows the usage of multiple Clipping Planes. Will this change before shipping Rhino 8 and creating drawings cut by multiple planes will be possible?

Hi Jakub - [image] Jakub Czajczynski: Both Make2D and Clipping Sections are only accepting one Clipping Plane at once. Rhino 7 accepted multiple clipping planes in Make2D, so this looks like a regression. → RH-76226 Make2D: Multiple ClippingPlanes As for Clipping Sections, are you referri…

I’m referring to the ClippingDrawings command. There are some methods now, and it’s easy to lost between them. Hoping to see some cleanup. Make2D does a lot of things right (transfers attributes which is very useful) but it’s not updatable.

Rhino 8 Feature: Selective Clipping

Serengeti (Rhino WIP)

brian (Brian Gillespie) July 26, 2023, 12:00am 24

RH-75238 is fixed in the latest WIP

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Rhino 8 Feature: Selective Clipping

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