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, and output those in a unique layer.
Extracting section hatch boundary as separate curves to a unique layer.
Extracting tangent curves in the background to a unique layer.
Why Extracting Points, Hatch-Boundary and Tangents is Useful?
Points, hatch-Boundary and tangents now output to unique layers.
This gives additional control over visibility, color, print width, linetype and more to modify parts of the clipping drawing.
How to use the new support for points, hatch-boundary and tangents with ClippingDrawings:
Before creating any ClippingDrawings, make sure that a SectionStyle is defined for model objects (in the layer or object properties).
Also add any curves or points to be clipped in the model.
Run ClippingDrawings command with the following options:
The “Tangent Visible” layer contains visible tangent curves.
The “Tangent Hidden” layer contains hidden tangent curves.
The “Hatch Boundary” layer contains the hatch boundary as separate curves. Note: You may need to turn off the Section\Curve layer to see the Hatch Boundary. Currently section curves have priority to be displayed over the Hatch Boundary in the Display.)
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
