Rhino WIP now supports the output of additional drawing geometry, specifically section points, section hatch-boundaries as and background tangents when creating Clipping-Drawings.
See video here:
What is Clipping Drawings’ Output?
Clipping drawings are 2D geometry generated from clipping sections.
The output includes the intersection with the clipping-plane, and background geometry of visible and hidden curves. The new additions include support the following:
Sectioning through curves to create points, output to a unique Points layer.
Extracting background tangent curves to unique Tangent Visible and Tangent Hidden layers.
Displaying the section hatch boundary, styled from the object’s SectionStyle (boundary visibility, color, print width, and linetype)
Why are points, hatch boundary, and tangents useful?
Points and tangents now output to their own unique layers, and the hatch boundary is styled directly from the section style. This gives you additional control over visibility, color, print width, linetype, and more, so you can fine-tune individual parts of the clipping drawing.
How to use the new support for points, hatch boundary, and tangents with ClippingDrawings
Before creating any Clipping Drawings, make sure a SectionStyle is defined for the model objects (in the layer or object properties).
Also add any curves or points to be clipped in the model.
Run the ClippingDrawings command with the following options:
ShowHatch = Yes
AddBackground = Yes
Properties = ByOutputLayers
Observe New Behavior:
Go to the Layers panel and verify:
The Points layer contains the section points.
The Tangent Visible layer contains the visible tangent curves.
The Tangent Hidden layer contains the hidden tangent curves.
The section hatch (on the Hatches layer) shows its boundary styled according to the object’s SectionStyle; boundary visibility, color, and print width.
Hi Rajaa, thank you for your update of the section tools. I have two wishes: 1. As Architects I have to export 2d Layouts into DWG Files. With all Details, Dimension, Text, Planheads etc. So if I use your section tool an make a layout out of all the sections and floorplans with all annotations etc in Layout space, we need to then export these layouts to 2d DWG files. Visual ARQ can do that in there latest version. Export Layouts To DWG in Rhino with VisualARQ Is there a way that you can incorporate that command. 2. Is it possible that the Section Tool can “see” and transfer all Rhino geometry into the Section, besides lines and Points, also Dimensions, Text and Hatches that are allready visible in the 3d Modell. Also it looks like blocks are not being sectioned with a hatch. Thank you, Oliver
We have that request on the list in two different items:
→ RH-90443 ClippingDrawings: Include Annotations
→ RH-87170 Make2D/ClippingDrawings: Support Background Curves and Hatches
Both of these are on the “Future” list.
As you can read in the hatch item, there is concern about partially hidden hatches and also perspective / isometric viewports where a resulting hatch wouldn’t look like the parent object.
In a very quick check, that seems to work fine here. Can you post a 3dm file?
-wim
Thank you Rajaa, I will try the FlattenLayout Command, is there way you could provide that for Rhino 8 as a Mini-Plugin / Script? We need that command desperatly. It would be so great and solve a big problem for me right away. Do you think it could work with a technical viewport mode that we used in the Layouts - so exporting the technical viewport lines into DWG as well? Pretty much printing liens to DWG rather than PDF - Kind of like the Hidden Viewport mode by VisualARQ — Thank you! BR Oliver
