Section Fills in a Raytraced Rendering

In raytraced renderings, areas clipped by clipping planes are filled with the material assigned to the object.

I’ve been attempting to create layouts showing the raytracing with coloured section fills overlayed onto raytraced raster images inserted onto the payout, but I haven’t found anything which works:

  1. Overlaid clipped detail view with fills. BringToFront doesn’t work to overlay the detail.

  2. Using Make 2d on the perspective view to create linework which can be pasted into the layout and brought to the front: it’s extremely painstaking to isolate the clipped lines from all the other lines.

  3. Using Mirrored clipping planes to isolate the sectioned area: This results in duplication of the clipped lines and that can result in even more difficulty to isolate the clipped linework.

Suggestions welcome.

can you post an example image of what you are trying to create?

Like this, but on a photoreal raytraced rendering:

Hello- you can modify the ray traced mode > Objects > Clipping plane > settings

-Pascal

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Thankyou Pascal, but it doesn’t seem to be working here.
There’s neither a fill nor an edge showing in the Raytracing.
(The viewport shows a rendered view on the right, the raytracing shows in the Raytrace Window panel on
the left.)
Maybe I’m missing something.
Rhino 7, by the way.

Hatches and such are drawn into the Raytraced and Rhino Rendered results only in Rhino 8.

Raytraced itself doesn’t get yet fill geometry, so it isn’t able to render those. And in Rhino 8 hatches are drawn as a post pro step, so still not Rhino Render or Raytraced doing that. But you have good control over clip sectioning styles.

Thanks Nathan.

Is there a workaround to make the fills in 7? (I’ll upgrade to 8 when VisualArq is compatible with it.)

Is there a way to resolve the draworder dilemma from Option 2 from my O.P.? I’m using Options 1 and 3 but they require meticulous deletion.

No workaround that I am aware if.

I don’t know enough about layouts to be of help there. I’ll let @pascal and @theoutside do the talking on that topic