I see it and I’m looking into it. Thanks for sharing the model.
[Update] I found where the bug is and I’m working on a fix. It was introduced in 8.9 (8.8 works with blocks).
[Update2] This issue is now fixed and you should be able to see it in the next service release candidate. filed here…
Hello Rajaa,
thank you for the progress - the clipping drawings are working better now but I think still not reliable. I attached another file with a bug.
the right plane is clipping only through geometry - here it seems to work fine.
the left plane clips through some on some of the outside surface and here in the drawing in the top right stuff gets shifted again
290824_CLIPPING_ISSUE.3dm (3.3 MB)
as always working with the latest service release
best regards,
sebowim
@rajaa sorry forgot to tag you.
cheers
Hi Sebastian -
Thanks. I’ve logged this as RH-83566 Section Tools: Clipping Drawings Failure Sample
-wim
New R8 SR10 user here.
I have the same issue - Section Drawings will not show elements contained within a block. The objects on the right (in red circle) are blocks, and outside the circle - not blocks.
The blocks don’t show up on the Section Drawing.
I also have the exact same issue with running a Section Drawing through a “Lands Design” Terrain Object.
This is an absolutely useless situation!
Hi Gil -
In a quick test here, I’m not able to reproduce that issue.
Please run the Rhino SystemInfo command and copy-paste the result here. Also, if you could post a simple file that we can use to troubleshoot this issue, that would be very helpful.
-wim
Here Goes:
Rhino 8 SR10 2024-8-15 (Rhino 8, 8.10.24228.13001, Git hash:master @ f4c93f2b85de4dc69b50ed22f1b0d91445724d03)
License type: Commercial, build 2024-08-15
License details: Cloud Zoo
Windows 10 (10.0.19045 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 127GB)
.NET 7.0.0
Computer platform: DESKTOP
Standard graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (NVidia) Memory: 24GB, Driver date: 6-8-2023 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 536.23
> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #0
Secondary graphics devices.
AMD Radeon™ Graphics (AMD) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 10-25-2023 (M-D-Y).
> Accelerated graphics device with 5 adapter port(s)
- There are no monitors attached to this device!
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: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 6-8-2023
Driver Version: 31.0.15.3623
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 24564 MB
Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Tibidabo\Lands.rhp “Lands Design”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Tibidabo\Tibidabo.rhp “Tibidabo”
Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 8.10.24228.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 8.10.24228.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 8.10.24228.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 8.10.24228.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 8.10.24228.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 8.10.24228.13001
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”
And the related file
Section Drawing through block issue R8 SR10.3dm (1.3 MB)
Hi Gil -
Thanks -
This appears to have been fixed in a SR11 candidate.
If this is something that requires the Lands Design plug-in, you’ll want to report this to Asuni → RhinoLands (Lands Design) - McNeel Forum
-wim
I am new to this. What would that mean in practice? Is this available?
ThX - Reported to Asuni with a link to this Discourse
Gil
Never mind, got it figured. Newbe me
I don’t have time to read through the topics to see if it was reported yet, but during my tests of this tool (ClippingDrawings to be exact) I noticed problems with cutting through Block Instances.
I want to produce a ClippingDrawing that will cut through Block Instances but only include geometries that are on given Layers. You can see, that Breps (on the right) are giving me expected results - only purple part is visible on the ClippingDrawing. Cutting through Block Instance that is placed on Block Instance Layer 01 is producing curves from both Layer 01 (red - incorrect) and Layer 02 (purple - correct).
Clipping Drawings Test - Block Instance.3dm (558.5 KB)
Rhino 9 SR0 2025-9-30 (Rhino WIP, 9.0.25273.12305, Git hash:master @ 0d7de8402cb276bd70bde26d0c2c95e509141f32)
License type: Educational, build 2025-09-30
License details: Cloud Zoo
Expires on: 2025-11-14
Windows 11 (10.0.26100 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 64GB)
.NET 9.0.1
Computer platform: LAPTOP - Plugged in [98% battery remaining]
Non-hybrid graphics configuration using OpenGL
Primary display: NVIDIA RTX A3000 12GB Laptop GPU (NVidia) Memory: 11GB, Driver date: 7-9-2025 (M-D-Y). OpenGL(4.6.0 NVIDIA 573.57)
> Integrated accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display is laptop’s integrated screen or built-in port
Primary OpenGL: NVIDIA RTX A3000 12GB Laptop GPU (NVidia) Memory: 11GB, Driver date: 7-9-2025 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 573.57
> Integrated accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display is laptop’s integrated screen or built-in port
Secondary graphics devices.
Intel(R) UHD Graphics (Intel) Memory: 2GB, Driver date: 2-28-2025 (M-D-Y).
> Integrated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- There are no monitors attached to this device.
OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
GPU Tessellation is: 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: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 7-9-2025
Driver Version: 32.0.15.7357
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 11520 MB
OpenBLAS: OpenBLAS 0.3.29 DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Haswell MAX_THREADS=64.
Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Users\Czaja\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\9.0\Plug-ins\Bella (813de3fb-18eb-405f-bfcd-b0b4d3da91fb)\25.3.0.0\bella_rhino.rhp “Bella” 25.3.0.0
C:\Users\Czaja\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\7.0\Plug-ins\BrickDesign (6e4f525d-d830-4e65-86af-b3719fcc4159)\1.2.0.0\BrickDesign\Common\BrickDesign.rhp “BrickDesign” 1.2.0.0
C:\Users\Czaja\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\7.0\Plug-ins\Crayon (39629248-4fa6-47b8-83c7-745a7efea259)\1.2.0.0\Crayon\Crayon.rhp “Crayon” 1.0.0.0
C:\ProgramData\McNeel\Rhinoceros\7.0\Plug-ins\Datasmith Rhino Exporter (d1fdc795-b334-4933-b680-088119cdc6bb)\DatasmithRhino7.rhp “Datasmith Exporter” 5.5.1.0
C:\Users\Czaja\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\9.0\ggRhinoIFC\25.7.27.8\ggRhinoIFC.rhp “ggRhinoIFC” 25.7.27.8
C:\Users\Czaja\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\9.0\Synapse\0.5.0\SynapseRCP.rhp “SynapseRCP” 0.5.0.0
Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\SolidTools.rhp “SolidTools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 9.0.25273.12305
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\WebBrowser.rhp “WebBrowser”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\RhinoScript.rhp “RhinoScript”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\IdleProcessor.rhp “IdleProcessor”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\UpdatesAndStatistics\UpdatesAndStatistics.rhp “UpdatesAndStatistics” 9.0.25273.12305
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 9.0.25273.12305
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 9.0.25273.12305
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 9.0.25273.12305
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 9.0.25273.12305
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 9.0.25273.12305
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\BlockEdit.rhp “BlockEdit” 9.0.25273.12305
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”
EDIT:
Now I see it was reported 1,5 years ago, unfortunately, it seems that no one is working on it at the moment. Pity, because Blocks are important, but have many problems.
RH-81593 is fixed in Rhino 8 Service Release 29
