Rhino WIP added support for placing Clipping Drawings on the same layers as their source objects.
What are Clipping Drawings?
Clipping drawings are dynamic 2D drawings extracted from clipping sections, projected either onto the clipping section plane or parallel to the World XY-Plane.
Why place drawings in source layers?
3D models are organized into layers with specific properties for color, material, linetypes, and thicknesses, which apply to all objects on the layer by default. Placing section and elevation drawings on the same layers as the sectioned objects makes it trivial to apply the same properties to the drawings, and lets you export drawings using the same original layer organization. It also helps keep the model tidy, without needing to create duplicate layers.
You can now maintain source layers for Clipping-Drawings!
Workflow to place drawings in source layers:
- Add a clipping plane to your 3D scene using the ClippingSections command.
- Select the clipping plane and run the ClippingDrawings command.
- In the dialog, set Properties = UseSourceLayers (along with any other options), then click OK.
Tip: hide the drawing in model space and show it only in a layout detail:
- Zoom to the drawing in model space, or open the layout detail.
- Select the drawing, run IsolateToViewport, and pick the detail viewport.
- To reverse it, run UnisolateFromViewports to show the isolated objects in the other viewports again.
The rest of SectionTools Enhancements can be found here…