Rhino 8 - Line thickness, print display / section

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Hi, I’m having trouble in layout to sort out thicknesses/section cuts and so on…

Say :

  1. I have 2 closed polysurfaces on the same layer.
  2. I have a clipping plane cutting one object but not the other and applied that clip plane to the detail view in my layout.
  3. I have print display on in the layout mode.
  4. I have set Print width to 0.13mm on the layer properties.
  5. I have set a Section Style to that layer.

Quite some troubles at the moment:

  • It is impossible to drive the thickness of the cut object in my detail view. I have the same thickness whether the object is cut or not (which is driven by the “print width” layer properties).

  • I can see the pattern set on the custom section style to the cut object… however, If I set a hatch pattern, the only way to have a background not using the same color as the “print color” (so then pattern and background are the same and everything look like a solid fill) is to set it to viewport so then it uses the layer color… not super friendly.

I don’t know if I’m doing it wrong or if it’s all still a bit wobbly when it comes to producing drawings.

Any tips? or Best practice when it’s down to print display?

I can get things to get closer when I use the model display but then it’s all pixel based and not so accurate (I’d love to be able to set a proper mm to objects being seen, another mm to objects being cut and I feel like at the moment I can’t do that).

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Hi Romain -

I would recommend not using PrintDisplay from here on.
With PrintDisplay, for that first bullet, you’ll have to change your display mode to have surface edges defined in pixels and not in the object’s width as is the default.
I’m not completely clear what you are aiming for in that second bullet.

In Rhino 8, use a combination of the default settings in the display modes (i.e. surface edges widths are set to the object’s width) and the linetype. You’ll probably want to define your linetypes in a custom template file and always start with that. Linetypes can be defined in pixels, but, for your purpose, also in a few units:
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-wim

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Hi Wim, thanks, yes in my display style, for surfaces I set it to object width, so that in print mode I can control the thickness with the section style boundary to “scale up” the width defined in my layers.

For the second bullet, I’m talking about the background of a section object.

When set to Viewport, the background will use the layer color (grey in the example) :
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However if I pick a color in the Section style, the Print Color overrides :

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