Rhino BETA Feature: Align Clipping Drawings

[rajaa (Rajaa Issa)]

Clipping drawings can now be aligned so that separate drawings keep their correct relative positions, instead of each being placed independently. This is useful when:

• You use several clipping planes to cut different parts of a model and want to compose the results into a single drawing that reflects their true relative locations.
• You want to stack drawings from parallel clipping planes cutting through the same model, while preserving the real distances between them.

To use it, run AlignClippingDrawings, pick a source drawing to align to, then select the target drawings. Turn on the Stack option to also offset each target by the distance between its clipping plane and the source’s, so parallel sections are stacked at their true relative elevations.

You can download the WIP… to try this feature. Let us know what you think.

In this video, developer Rajaa Issa @rajaa covers important details about this feature.

Try It:

1. Download the Rhino BETA.
2. Download and open Try It - Align Sections.3dm
   
   

Creating the Sections

1. From the Drafting menu, select Sectioning → Clipping Drawing.

2. At the Select clipping planes prompt, pick clipping planes Building A - First Floor and Building A - First Floor. Enter.
   

   

3. For the First Floor clipping drawings, check the background to be included, and uncheck the Tangents and Hidden so they are not included.
   

   

4. Pick the locations in the same order as the clipping planes were selected. Points are on the Location Pts layer.

   
   Repeat this process for the Building A - Second Floor and *Building B - Second Floor.

5. From the Drafting menu, select Sectioning → Clipping Drawing.

6. At the Select clipping planes prompt, pick clipping planes Building A - Second Floor and Building B - Second Floor. Enter.
   

   

7. For the Second Floor clipping drawings, uncheck the background to be included so only the section lines are included.
   

   

8. Pick the locations in the same order as the clipping planes were selected. Points are on the Location Pts layer.
   

   

Aligning the Sections

1. From the Drafting menu, select Sectioning → Align Sections.
2. Select source drawing prompt ( Stack=Yes) (click stack to =yes), pick the Building B - First floor section drawing.
3. At the Select target drawings to align with source prompt, pick the Building B - Second floor section drawing and Enter. You will see the two sections drawings lineup in 3D space.
   
   
4. Repeat the *Align Sections command.
5. Select source drawing prompt ( Stack=Yes) (click stack to =yes), pick the Building B - First floor section drawing.
6. At the Select target drawings to align with source prompt, pick the Building A - First floor and Building A - Second floor section drawing and Enter.
   
   

Result

You will see the Building A sections drawings lineup in 3D space with the Building B Section drawings.

Make sure to let us know how it works for you in this post.

[rajaa (Rajaa Issa)]

The rest of SectionTools Enhancements can be found here…