Rhino SR10 crash on Vector print, Clipping Plane involved

Rhino SR10 crashes in a quite specific siutuation, however very common for any technical workflow:

  1. create a solid
  2. make a cutout with another solid
  3. create a clipping plane that interserct with the solid
  4. create New Layout
  5. make sure the clipping plane is active in the Layout
  6. set Display Mode inside Detail to: Technical, Pen, Artistic or Monochrome
  7. print from Layout using any PDF printer (Rhino/Microsoft/PDF24) using Vector Output

Rhino crashes just after typing “Print” command, after print dialog appears, but before it renders the preview.

I noticed that deleting Clipping Plane, leaving the solid uncarved, changing to any other Display Mode or changing to Raster Output makes it work. Additionally - Section Style Hatch Pattern doesn’t seem to work in a correct way, but it might be of another issue, since it crashes even without Section Stle Hatch Pattern set.

There was no such a problem in SR9. Unfortunately I have to go back to the previous version.

Please solve it ASAP, SR10 promises to fix visibility of occluded lines in Technical View, a functionality we all need!

See the file attached.
RHINO-8-SR10-CRASH-ON-VECTOR-PRINT-2024-08-15.3dm (82.0 KB)

Thank you in advance,
M

Hi @Michal,
Thank you for the report and the file.
We are investigating sr10 printing from a layout with a detail with advanced display.

Looking at it now.
I will report back soon.

Sincerely,
Mary Ann Fugier

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Hi @Michal,
I logged RH-83355/Rhino-SR10-crash-on-Layout-using-Vector-print-Clipping-Plane-Pen

Thank you for your analysis and the small file that we could post for the developer.
I was able to crash Rhino and generate a DMP for the developer.
This was actually the second report of the issue.

I am hoping that we will see a fix by next week in Sr11. (Any user can turn their Update and Statistics to Release candidate.)

But I will keep you posted on what the developer’s analysis is and how difficult is to fix.
If you email me tech@mcneel.com Attn Mary., when I test a “fix” I will not forget to let you know Asap.

Sincerely,
Mary Ann Fugier

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Hi @mary I have just checked if it is fixed in Sr11.
Indeed Rhino won’t crash anymore. Thank you!

PS: unfortunately I have to stay with SR9, because SR11 have serious issues with print preview.
Do you know if this issue is alreasy reported?

Please help us understand what is this serious issue is?

If we:

  1. open the file I sent in the first message;
  2. set to Layout and then make sure Detail is set to Technical Display;
  3. print to vector pdf;

We can clearly see that the preview is missing Section Hatch Patterns.

I have already uninstalled SR11 anw went back to SR9. As far as I remember one of the issues was (same with SR9) with some hidden lines showing even though I unchecked “show hidden lines” in Display Mode Options. However this is too much for me to explain right now, I would need much more time to explain it step by step.

Anyway, with all the problems connected to printing to vector I am sure you are able to see them and I hope it is of high priority to Developers.

I’ve been testing this file with 8.12 and from what I can tell the output looks correct.

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It works, also with 8.13. Thank you!