Rhino WIP Feature: Clipping Drawings Enhancements

Serengeti (Rhino WIP)
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Clipping Drawings Enhancements

We’re excited to share the new enhancements to dynamic clipping drawings in Rhino WIP to allow better control over the placement of drawings in modeling space. SectionTools also added support to draw curve objects, reflected ceiling projection and set LineType when create the drawings.

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Here is a summary of what’s new (please revisit for updates):

  • Project In-Place You can now project sections and elevations on the clipping-plane in their true 3D location.

  • Sectioning Curve Objects section/clipping planes can now section through curves. If the curves are in the background, then those will be projected as well.

  • Set 3D Reference Point for Drawings You can now set a persistent 3D reference point for your drawings and apply same point to multiple drawings to ensue persist and more accurate location of the 2D drawings

  • Elevated Projection It is now possible to set target point of drawings at an elevation from the XY-Plane to enable stacking of drawings

  • Reflective Parallel Projection is now supported

  • Set LineType of drawings ByLayer

Here is a closer look at this new feature set.

Project In-Place
You can now project sections and elevations on the clipping-plane in their true 3D location. This is similar to Make2D CPlane option except that the projection is on the clipping-plane. Drawings update when moving or rotating the clipping-plane and with model changes (run UpdateClippingDrawings).

Sectioning Curve Objects
You can now section through curves when creating clipping drawings. If the curves are in the background, then those will be projected as well.

Set 3D Reference Point for Drawings
You can now set a persistent 3D reference point for your drawings. The 3D point is projected to the clipping-plane and saved as persistent drawing attribute. If multiple clipping-planes are parallel and have similar orientation, using the same reference point ensures same relative locations of the drawings.

Elevated Projection
It is now possible to set target point of drawings at an elevation from the XY-Plane. This enable stacking of drawings. For example, you can stack floor-plans of a building.

Reflective Parallel Projection
Added support to generate reflective (ceiling) projections in drawings. To access it, run ClippingDrawings command and select “Projection” option, then select “Reflective”. This helps generate reflective ceiling drawings.
Known bug: Curves are not currently included in reflective projection. A request is logged for it.

Set Output Properties
Added an option to ClippingDrawings command to set LineType of output by either ByInputObject or ByLayer (output layer).

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Curve object visibility in section drawings
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Hi @rajaa, it there a plan to send ClippingDrawings to layout space ? In truth, I don’t really understand how those commands are supposed to interact with layout space if at all ? Is dynamic clipping not already what is possible there ?

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I agree, for product design would be much more convenient to have 2d drawings on layouts, like mcad do.

@rajaa there’s a specific limitation on this regards that stopped this request?

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If I understand you right, you are requesting that drawings be added to Page Layout directly (not inside a Detail)? If so, the main reason not to support that is that there is no good way to scale drawings if added directly to Layout (not inside a detail).

If I misunderstood your question, please give an example of the workflow you are suggesting. Thanks.

WISH - Section drawing on Layout page
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This is exactly the request.

If you think about product design the drawing comes always in 1:1 scale or bigger (2:1, 5:1…)
I tried to use the detailed view with technical drawing multiple time (but in V7 without the section style) for product drawing but it result in a complex managment.

In this case would be very handy to have the option to pull the drawing on a specific Page Layout.
As for the scale it could be an option in the Sectiontool?

Of course the best could be to being able to manage all the option associatively.

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Can you please elaborate on where the complexity is when using Detail view (with example)? The issue might have been addressed in V8 or the WIP.