Rhino WIP added support to place Clipping Drawings in the same layers of source objects.
What are Clipping Drawings?
Clipping drawings are dynamic 2D drawings extracted from clipping sections and are projected on either the clipping section plane or placed parallel to World XY-Plane.
Why place drawings in source layers?
3D models are organized in layers with specific properties for color, material and line-types and thicknesses. These properties apply to all objects by default. Placing section and elevation drawings in the same layers of sectioned objects make it trivial to apply same properties to drawings and allows exporting drawings using same original layer organization. Placing clipping drawings in source layers also helps keeping the model tidy without the need to create duplicate layers.
You can now maintain source layers for Clipping-Drawings!
Workflow to places drawings in source layers:
- Add a clipping plane to your 3D scene by using the ClippingSections command.
- Run the ClippingDrawings command and follow the prompts. Make sure to set
- Properties=UseSourceLayers
- Notice: To hide drawings from model space and isolate to a detail in layout, use the following workflow:
- Open the detail in layout
- Run ClippingDrawings from there, or zoom to previously extracted drawing in model space.
- Select the drawing and run IsolateToViewport and select the detail viewport
- You can run UnisolateToViewport to select and show isolated objects in other viewports.