My job is to understand everything about Rhino, Grasshopper & Revit, which i fall rather short in accomplishing.
rajaa is the developer of section tools. Profile - rajaa - McNeel Forum
Ideally you could create individual threads with clear examples of the issues and we can work though them.
There must be at least a few team members working on the sections and section styles. If itās just a single person itās too much. I understand the section tools might be related to section styles, but from the userās perspective, the section tools are really their own thing and used to create 2D geometry based on the section cut.
The things that arenāt working in R8 have actually brought my projects to a complete halt. So for me itās pretty serious. Iām even contemplating downgrading to Rhino 7 because whatever is wrong itās breaking stuff that worked in R7 as well.
That was my response to this question in particular, there are a lot of developers involved, Rajaa is the primary dev in this regard, but any youtracks created get assigned accordingly per their subsystem.
Are there any particular youtracks that you are waiting on? If applicable iāll bump up the priority.
For me the most essential things are:
(Iām using the word section below often referring to
Clipping plane which I think is a misnomer)
1 - make all geometry that is in the section plane visible / selectable. As it is today, you can draw a line and when itās done, it disappears, because the Display Pipeline is not working. Just that simple bug renders drawing in section useless.
Same with hatches, that frequently disappear if they are in the section plane (which is where they are supposed to be)
2 - make an option to outline the full geometry when selected in section mode. As it is now, when manipulating an object which is partly cut by a section plane, you have no idea what you are doing, because you donāt know how the full object looks. This is a major drawback and simple to fix.
3 - selecting thing while in section mode is really buggy. When picking surfaces itās impossible to understand which surface is being selected. Iāll post a small animation of this tomorrow.
4 - also those hidden command for enabling and disabling all sections are not working well. I select two section planes and click the Perspective section tickbox. I then disable all section planes. That works. When I enable all of them again it enables other section planes on hidden and locked layers. So to
Make this work I need to go through loads of section planes looking for checked tickboxes. I need to do a save a layer state, turn everything on, select all clipping planes, destroy their settingsā¦ We need a way of going in and out of section mode smoothly. I use it over and over again to work in complex geometry.
5 - please do a section mode where we can see both sectioned geometry and what has been cutaway. In two different display modes. So cutaways in light grey wireframe and rest in rendered. Or whatever.
6 - this is more tricky but very important - make
all linework created by the section plane act as ārealā linework does! So you can click on a line (created by the section plane - it does not exist as an object per se) and you can copy it, or extend it or extrude it, or use the gimbal on it. As soon as such an operation is performed the manipulated section geometry becomes a real rhino object.
There are more important points. I will fill in more tomorrow as I work in the section/clipping plane. As an architect it is used almost all the time. Those points above would simplify a lot. Save hours every day.
Thanks
/Erik
Hi Erik, Here are some of the Feature requests. The others we need to work through a bit more (3, 4, & 6).
RH-86778 Add Hatches to Clipping Plane Display Mode Settings
Clipping Plane Option to Override Object Section Style. (Display mode could still override the override)
RH-86779 Clipping Plane Option to Override Object Section Style
RH-86779 Clipping Plane Option to Override Object Section Style
RH-86883 Option to allow selected Section geometry to be visible
RH-86884 Section Display Mode that shows sectioned objects differently
How shall I help out ?
/Erik
Hello,
Is the feature shown in the image at the link still in use? I think itās no longer active. I hope itās my mistake.https://docs.mcneel.com/rhino/8/help/en-us/commands/clippingplane.htm#ExportClippingSectionInfo
Command-line options
Extracts the slices using the custom depth set in Clipping Plane properties as the thickness.
When the custom depth is disabled, 0 is used as the thickness.
UseClippingPlaneDepth=Yes hides the Thickness and Location options.
Specifies the slice thickness.
If the thickness is 0, planar slices are returned. Otherwise, 3D solids are returned.
The location of the slice relative to the clipping plane.
Creates the slice in front of the clipping widget.
The triangles point to the front direction.
Creates the slice with the clipping widget on the center plane.
Creates the slice behind the clipping widget.
Specifies whether output objects will be grouped.
Hi Heycey -
The ExtractClippingSlices seems to work as expected here.
If you have a sample where that is not the case, please provide both a 3dm file that we can examine and the output from the Rhino SystemInfo command.
-wim
Hello,
Iām sorry, but I canāt upload anything due to company rules. However, after the last update, the problem resolved itself.
Another question I have about this tool is: Can we use the intersection points of two clipping planes during visualization? Not for cutting or slicing, but only for visualization. I mean limiting the clipping planeās area of effect in a parallel direction, not in depth. I would love to explain it visually, but itās not possible.
Best regards.
Hi Heycey -
That feature request is on the list as RH-3952 Clipping Objects
-wim
Itās an old topic. I hope it will be considered worth developing and made available for use.
Thank you!
