Rhino WIP Feature: Template Layers for Clipping Drawings

Serengeti (Rhino WIP)
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In the Rhino WIP, you can now use template layers when creating Clipping Drawings.

See video of template layers in use.

What are clipping drawings’ layers?

Clipping drawings are 2D geometry generated from clipping sections.
They can be projected onto the section plane or placed parallel to the World XY plane. The results are organized in a locked layer structure that separates the section from the background. You can set the drawings to inherit the properties of their output layer.

What are clipping drawing template layers?

Creating clipping drawing template layers and set layer properties like color, linetype, print width once. With the addition of each new clipping drawing, the ClippingDrawing command will reference this list of template layers when adding the new clipping drawing. This is gives full control over the properties of the clipping drawings’ output layer organization.

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Why a reference template is useful?

Clipping drawing template layers include all standard drawing layer properties.
You can set the layers’ properties once per document or save them in a project template file.
Drawings that inherit properties from their output layers will then reference the template’s properties.

How to Create and Reference Template Layers for Clipping Drawings:

Before creating any drawings:

  • Type the command CreateTemplateDrawing command (only once per document) to create the reference layers.
  • Set the properties of the layers to your project standard (you can save as template file).

To reference the template from drawings:

  1. Run the ClippingDrawings command:
  2. Set Properties option to ByOutputLayer
  3. All layers properties will be set the same as those in the template layers.
  4. Pick a placement point to locate the clipping drawing in the Top view.

Notes:

  • If you change the template layers properties after you create a drawing, this change will not affect existing drawing layers when updated or clipping-plane moved. This protects all changes made to individual drawings layers. If you like to populate new changes, delete drawing layers and recreate the drawing by running ClippingDrawings command.

  • Do not change layer names in the template. Those are referenced by your clipping drawings.

  • You can set the layer properties for your visible background curves, for objects that are not sectioned, in the “Background Visible not Sectioned” layer of the template. This is applied to your Background→Visible not Sectioned layer.

Try it now…

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RH-89905 is fixed in Rhino WIP